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Dictionaries is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Dictionary Society of North America.
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ISSN 0197-6745Verify ISSN ↗2160-5076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dictionary Society of North America
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 822 / 1137 | 27th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 921 / 1221 | 24th | Q4 |
| Communication | 484 / 541 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Dictionaries is Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 822 of 1137), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 921 of 1221) and Q4 in Communication (rank 484 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Dictionaries 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, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Dictionaries is published by Dictionary Society of North America. Its print ISSN is 0197-6745 and its online ISSN is 2160-5076.
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.
Dictionaries has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #477 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Dictionaries published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 34. 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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