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Assessing Writing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1075-2935Verify ISSN ↗1873-5916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,330 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 10 / 1137 | 99th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 12 / 1221 | 99th | Q1 |
| Education | 44 / 1698 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1994–2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Assessing Writing is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 10 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 12 of 1221) and Q1 in Education (rank 44 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Assessing Writing 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 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.972, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,330 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.
Assessing Writing is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1075-2935 and its online ISSN is 1873-5916.
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.
Assessing Writing has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 4.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Assessing Writing published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 87. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (28.3%), United States (24.2%) and New Zealand (5.1%).
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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