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Discourse Processes is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0163-853XVerify ISSN ↗1532-6950Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 96 / 1137 | 91st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 113 / 1221 | 90th | Q1 |
| Communication | 112 / 541 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1978–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Discourse Processes is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 96 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 113 of 1221) and Q1 in Communication (rank 112 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Discourse Processes is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.928, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
Discourse Processes is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0163-853X and its online ISSN is 1532-6950.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Discourse Processes has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 1.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Discourse Processes published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 55. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.2%), Netherlands (14.8%) and Germany (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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