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Indogermanische Forschungen is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0019-7262Verify ISSN ↗1613-0405Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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 | 358 / 1137 | 68th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 437 / 1221 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1973–1988, 1971, 1959–1969, 1956–1957, 1954, 1952, 1944, 1942, 1940, 1938, 1934, 1932, 1923–1924, 1921, 1908–1917, 1903–1906, 1892–1900), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Indogermanische Forschungen is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 358 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 437 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Indogermanische Forschungen 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
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.
Indogermanische Forschungen is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0019-7262 and its online ISSN is 1613-0405.
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.
Indogermanische Forschungen has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #600 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Indogermanische Forschungen published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 19. 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 68 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Italy (16.7%), Germany (12.5%) and United States (8.8%).
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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