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Australian Journal of Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0726-8602Verify ISSN ↗1469-2996Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 360 / 1137 | 68th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 439 / 1221 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Australian Journal of Linguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 360 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 439 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Australian Journal of Linguistics is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
Australian Journal of Linguistics is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0726-8602 and its online ISSN is 1469-2996.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Australian Journal of Linguistics has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Australian Journal of Linguistics published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (60.4%), China (9.8%) and New Zealand (4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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