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Cognitive Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 0936-5907Verify ISSN ↗1613-3641Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 189 / 1137 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 222 / 1221 | 81st | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 214 / 380 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Cognitive Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 189 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 222 of 1221) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 214 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive 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 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 0.819, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Cognitive Linguistics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0936-5907 and its online ISSN is 1613-3641.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cognitive Linguistics has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #170 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Cognitive Linguistics published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 44. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (12.6%), China (12%) and United Kingdom (9.6%).
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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