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Communication Sciences and Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
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ISSN 2288-0917Verify ISSN ↗2288-1328Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 473 / 1221 | 61st | Q2 |
| Communication | 340 / 541 | 37th | Q3 |
| Speech and Hearing | 48 / 68 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Communication Sciences and Disorders is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 473 of 1221), Q3 in Communication (rank 340 of 541) and Q3 in Speech and Hearing (rank 48 of 68), by CiteScore 2025.
Communication Sciences and Disorders 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Communication Sciences and Disorders is published by Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Its print ISSN is 2288-0917 and its online ISSN is 2288-1328.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communication Sciences and Disorders has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #446 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Communication Sciences and Disorders published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 97. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (95.8%), Türkiye (1%) and United States (1%). 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 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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