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Arab World English Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Dr. Khairi Obaid Tayyeh Al-Zubaid.
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ISSN 2229-9327Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dr. Khairi Obaid Tayyeh Al-Zubaid
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 192 / 1221 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Arab World English Journal is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 192 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Arab World English Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.412, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Arab World English Journal is published by Dr. Khairi Obaid Tayyeh Al-Zubaid. Its ISSN is 2229-9327.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Arab World English Journal has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Arab World English Journal published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 245. 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 2 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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