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American Speech is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 0003-1283Verify ISSN ↗1527-2133Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 324 / 1137 | 71st | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 391 / 1221 | 67th | Q2 |
| Communication | 302 / 541 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1984, 1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
American Speech is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 324 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 391 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 302 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
American Speech 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
American Speech is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 0003-1283 and its online ISSN is 1527-2133.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
American Speech has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #395 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
American Speech published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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.
In its latest 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.3%), Canada (5.4%) and Germany (4.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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