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International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SSCI. Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1748-8885Verify ISSN ↗1748-8893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 583 / 1221 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Law | 753 / 1162 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 583 of 1221) and Q3 in Law (rank 753 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 37.
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1748-8885 and its online ISSN is 1748-8893.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #618 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 30. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.3%), China (12.4%) and Australia (10.8%).
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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