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FORUM (The Netherlands) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1598-7647Verify ISSN ↗2451-909XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 208 / 1186 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 532 / 1137 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 638 / 1221 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
FORUM (The Netherlands) is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 208 of 1186), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 532 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 638 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
FORUM (The Netherlands) 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
FORUM (The Netherlands) is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1598-7647 and its online ISSN is 2451-909X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
FORUM (The Netherlands) has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
FORUM (The Netherlands) published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 25. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (16.7%), South Korea (10.7%) and Iran (9.6%).
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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