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Historiographia Linguistica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0302-5160Verify ISSN ↗1569-9781Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 964 / 1936 | 50th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 705 / 1137 | 37th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 815 / 1221 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Historiographia Linguistica is Q2 in History (rank 964 of 1936), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 705 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 815 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Historiographia Linguistica 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.107, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Historiographia Linguistica is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0302-5160 and its online ISSN is 1569-9781.
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.
Historiographia Linguistica has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historiographia Linguistica published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (20.4%), United Kingdom (15.8%) and Germany (11.9%).
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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