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Functions of Language is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0929-998XVerify ISSN ↗1569-9765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 344 / 1137 | 69th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 419 / 1221 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Functions of Language is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 344 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 419 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Functions of Language is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.312, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
Functions of Language is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0929-998X and its online ISSN is 1569-9765.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Functions of Language has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #297 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Functions of Language published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 30. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (30.8%), Germany (17.3%) and United States (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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