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Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1542-7587Verify ISSN ↗1542-7595Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 40 / 1137 | 96th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 45 / 1221 | 96th | Q1 |
| Education | 211 / 1698 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 40 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 45 of 1221) and Q1 in Education (rank 211 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1, 96th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.984, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1542-7587 and its online ISSN is 1542-7595.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 2.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 30. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.4%), Canada (11.9%) and United Kingdom (8.7%).
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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