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Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0005-8076Verify ISSN ↗1865-9373Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 598 / 1186 | 49th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 841 / 1137 | 26th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 943 / 1221 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present (also 1955–1965, 1947–1953, 1944–1945, 1942, 1920–1940, 1912–1918, 1891–1910, 1884–1889, 1882, 1876–1880, 1874), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 598 of 1186), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 841 of 1137) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 943 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0005-8076 and its online ISSN is 1865-9373.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 59. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (69.7%), Switzerland (15.2%) and Austria (3.4%). 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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