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College Composition and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS AHCI. Published by National Council of Teachers of English.
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ISSN 0010-096XVerify ISSN ↗1939-9006Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 109 / 1186 | 90th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 395 / 1137 | 65th | Q2 |
| Education | 1233 / 1698 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
College Composition and Communication is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 109 of 1186), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 395 of 1137) and Q3 in Education (rank 1233 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
College Composition and Communication 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
College Composition and Communication is published by National Council of Teachers of English. Its print ISSN is 0010-096X and its online ISSN is 1939-9006.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
College Composition and Communication has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
College Composition and Communication published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 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.
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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