Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal that gathers academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, classical and modern rhetoric, linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, formal and informal logic, critical thinking, history and law. Its scope includes a diversity of interests, from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics.
Argumentation publishes papers, book reviews, a yearly bibliography, and announcements of conferences and seminars.
To be considered for publication in the journal, a paper must satisfy all of these criteria:
1. Report research that is within the journals’ scope: concentrating on argumentation
2. Pose a clear and relevant research question
3. Make a contribution to the literature that connects with the state of the art in the field of argumentation theory
4. Be sound in methodology and analysis
5. Provide appropriate evidence and argumentation for the conclusions
6. Be presented in a clear and intelligible fashion in standard English
- International in coverage, and interdisciplinary in scope
- Gathers academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion
- Presents a diversity of interests, from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics
- 100% of authors who answered a survey reported that they would definitely publish or probably publish in the journal again
Journal information
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Frans H. van Eemeren
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 0.904 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 1.042 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 32 days
- Submission to first decision
- 187 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 88,378 (2020)
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Latest issue

Volume 35
Special Issue Title: Argumentation through languages and cultures
Latest articles
Journal updates
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-8374
- Print ISSN
- 0920-427X
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- CNKI
- Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
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- EBSCO Communication
- EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete
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- EBSCO Linguistics Abstracts Online
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- Google Scholar
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
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- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- PhilPapers
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Philosophy Database
- ProQuest Research Library
- ProQuest Social Science Collection
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
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