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International Journal of American Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0020-7071Verify ISSN ↗1545-7001Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 501 / 1137 | 55th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 604 / 1221 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
International Journal of American Linguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 501 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 604 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of American Linguistics 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
International Journal of American Linguistics is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0020-7071 and its online ISSN is 1545-7001.
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.
International Journal of American Linguistics has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #695 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
International Journal of American Linguistics published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 58. 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 60 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.1%), France (25%) and Mexico (8.3%).
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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