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Africana Linguistica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 0065-4124Verify ISSN ↗2033-8732Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 501 / 1137 | 55th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 604 / 1221 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2025 (also 2008–2018), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Africana Linguistica is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 501 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 604 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Africana Linguistica is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Africana Linguistica is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0065-4124 and its online ISSN is 2033-8732.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Africana Linguistica has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #894 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Africana Linguistica published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 21. 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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