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Chinese Language Learning Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2520-1719Verify ISSN ↗2520-1727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 616 / 1137 | 45th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 730 / 1221 | 40th | Q3 |
| Education | 1467 / 1698 | 13th | Q4 |
| Computer Science Applications | 930 / 1022 | 9th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2023, 2019–2021, 2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Chinese Language Learning Sciences is Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 616 of 1137), Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 730 of 1221) and Q4 in Education (rank 1467 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Language Learning Sciences 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 0.5, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Chinese Language Learning Sciences is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2520-1719 and its online ISSN is 2520-1727.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Language Learning Sciences has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Chinese Language Learning Sciences published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 42. 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.
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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