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Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2214-1057Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1093 / 1936 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 792 / 1137 | 30th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 892 / 1221 | 26th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1340 / 1530 | 12th | Q4 |
| Communication | 476 / 541 | 12th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 302 / 315 | 4th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2020–2022, 2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics is Q3 in History (rank 1093 of 1936), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 792 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 892 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 2214-1057.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,165 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics published 20 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 36. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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