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Culture and Language Use is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1879-5838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 798 / 1137 | 29th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 898 / 1221 | 26th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 436 / 536 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2020, 2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Culture and Language Use is Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 798 of 1137), Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 898 of 1221) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 436 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Culture and Language Use 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Culture and Language Use is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1879-5838.
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.
Culture and Language Use has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 5.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Culture and Language Use published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 124. 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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