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Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), DOAJ. Published by Castledown Publishers.
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ISSN 2209-0959Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Castledown Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 249 / 1221 | 79th | Q1 |
| Education | 823 / 1698 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 249 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 823 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics 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 2.2, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics is published by Castledown Publishers. Its ISSN is 2209-0959.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics published 53 papers in 2025. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Iran (12.7%), Saudi Arabia (9.7%) and Türkiye (6.5%).
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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