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Communitas is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of the Free State.
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ISSN 1023-0556Verify ISSN ↗2415-0525Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of the Free State
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 412 / 1137 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 501 / 1221 | 59th | Q2 |
| Communication | 354 / 541 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Communitas is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 412 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 501 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 354 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Communitas 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$195 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Communitas is published by University of the Free State. Its print ISSN is 1023-0556 and its online ISSN is 2415-0525.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Communitas has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #399 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Communitas published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 32. 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 86 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from South Africa (85.3%), Colombia (3.5%) and Nigeria (2.3%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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