Informal Logic
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

Canada

Journal ISSN: 8242577

Publisher: University of Windsor

History: 2010-2021

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Scope/Description:

Informal Logic publishes articles that advance the dialectic in reasoning and argumentation theory and practice. Primary criteria for the acceptance of articles with a theoretical focus or interest are 1 the article advances the dialectic or constitutes an interesting comment on it it presents a cogent argument objection interpretation or position that is an advance in relation to the background of issues and controversies on the topic or it casts the issue addressed in a new and worthwhile light and 2 the article makes explicit reference to the pertinent literature on its topic and it discharges the burden of proof imposed by that scholarship. Primary criteria for acceptance of articles devoted to the teaching of informal logic critical thinking or argumentation include originality utility timeliness and evidence of the effectiveness of the methods materials technologies etc. proposed. The standard criteria for scholarly publicationtopical fit with the subjects covered in the journal adequacy of coverage to the issue addressed clarity organization and literateness of the prose conceptual clarity and cogency of argumentationapply ceteris paribus to the selection of all articles notes and reviews.