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East Asian Pragmatics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2055-7752Verify ISSN ↗2055-7760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 561 / 1434 | 60th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 481 / 1137 | 57th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 580 / 1221 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Communication | 398 / 541 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
East Asian Pragmatics is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 561 of 1434), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 481 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 580 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
East Asian Pragmatics 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
East Asian Pragmatics is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2055-7752 and its online ISSN is 2055-7760.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
East Asian Pragmatics has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #622 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
East Asian Pragmatics published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 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.
In its latest 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (35.6%), United States (15.1%) and Japan (14.4%).
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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