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Cognitive Linguistic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2213-8722Verify ISSN ↗2213-8730Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 529 / 1221 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 529 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.254, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2213-8722 and its online ISSN is 2213-8730.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #282 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 27. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (17.8%), Spain (13.3%) and Hungary (12%).
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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