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Gesture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1568-1475Verify ISSN ↗1569-9773Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 290 / 1434 | 79th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 350 / 1221 | 71st | Q2 |
| Communication | 281 / 541 | 48th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 134 / 169 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2001–2014), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Gesture is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 290 of 1434), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 350 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 281 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Gesture 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
Gesture is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1568-1475 and its online ISSN is 1569-9773.
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.
Gesture has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #181 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Gesture published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 32. 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 60 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (16.6%), United States (15.3%) and Canada (11.2%).
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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