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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2192-9505Verify ISSN ↗2192-9513Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 186 / 1137 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 219 / 1221 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 186 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 219 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.477, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
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.
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2192-9505 and its online ISSN is 2192-9513.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #235 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 45. 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 China (58.8%), United States (9.6%) and United Kingdom (5.7%). 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 1 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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