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Argumentation in Context is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1877-6884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 1054 / 1137 | 7th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1145 / 1221 | 6th | Q4 |
| Communication | 526 / 541 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2024, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Argumentation in Context is Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 1054 of 1137), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1145 of 1221) and Q4 in Communication (rank 526 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Argumentation in Context 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 7th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 1.
Argumentation in Context is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1877-6884.
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.
Argumentation in Context has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #137 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Argumentation in Context published 19 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 97. 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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