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Humor is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0933-1719Verify ISSN ↗1613-3722Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 220 / 1137 | 80th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 257 / 1221 | 78th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 590 / 1530 | 61st | Q2 |
| Psychology (all) | 131 / 220 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Humor is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 220 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 257 of 1221) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 590 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Humor 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.384, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Humor is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0933-1719 and its online ISSN is 1613-3722.
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.
Humor has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #322 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Humor published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 50. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.2%), Poland (8.9%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
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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