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Constructions and Frames is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1876-1933Verify ISSN ↗1876-1941Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 238 / 1137 | 79th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 286 / 1221 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Constructions and Frames is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 238 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 286 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Constructions and Frames 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.641, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Constructions and Frames is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1876-1933 and its online ISSN is 1876-1941.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Constructions and Frames has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 6.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Constructions and Frames published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 15. 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 60 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (16.4%), Germany (15.8%) and United States (10.8%).
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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