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GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
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ISSN 1675-8021Verify ISSN ↗2550-2131Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 38 / 1186 | 96th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 279 / 1137 | 75th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 332 / 1221 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 38 of 1186), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 279 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 332 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 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.
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies is published by Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1675-8021 and its online ISSN is 2550-2131.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 72. 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 88 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (52.1%), Indonesia (14%) and Poland (9.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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