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Forum for Modern Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0015-8518Verify ISSN ↗1471-6860Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,718 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 426 / 1186 | 64th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 841 / 1221 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Forum for Modern Language Studies is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 426 of 1186) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 841 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Forum for Modern Language Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,718 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Forum for Modern Language Studies is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0015-8518 and its online ISSN is 1471-6860.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forum for Modern Language Studies has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Forum for Modern Language Studies published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 94. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (49.5%), United States (9.1%) and China (8.1%).
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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