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Interaction Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1572-0373Verify ISSN ↗1572-0381Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 208 / 1137 | 81st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 243 / 1221 | 80th | Q1 |
| Communication | 209 / 541 | 61st | Q2 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 217 / 520 | 58th | Q2 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 133 / 196 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
Interaction Studies is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 208 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 243 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 209 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Interaction Studies is indexed in the 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.218, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
Interaction Studies is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1572-0373 and its online ISSN is 1572-0381.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Interaction Studies has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Interaction Studies 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (14.3%), United States (11.1%) and Italy (8.7%).
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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