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Instructed Second Language Acquisition is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 2398-4155Verify ISSN ↗2398-4163Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 666 / 1221 | 45th | Q3 |
| Education | 1422 / 1698 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition is Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 666 of 1221) and Q4 in Education (rank 1422 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.139, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 2398-4155 and its online ISSN is 2398-4163.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #432 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 62 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Italy (29%), Spain (7.3%) and United States (6.5%).
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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