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Applied Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0142-6001Verify ISSN ↗1477-450XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$5,481 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 18 / 1137 | 98th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 20 / 1221 | 98th | Q1 |
| Communication | 20 / 541 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Applied Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 18 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 20 of 1221) and Q1 in Communication (rank 20 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Linguistics is indexed in the 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.207, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,481 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Applied Linguistics is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0142-6001 and its online ISSN is 1477-450X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Linguistics has an h-index of 207 and a 2-year mean of 3.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Applied Linguistics published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 96. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.4%), United States (19.6%) and United Kingdom (9.3%).
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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