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Issues in Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
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ISSN 2180-2726Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 529 / 1434 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 461 / 1137 | 59th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 554 / 1221 | 54th | Q2 |
| Communication | 386 / 541 | 28th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Issues in Language Studies is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 529 of 1434), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 461 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 554 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Issues in Language Studies 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
Issues in Language Studies is published by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Its ISSN is 2180-2726.
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.
Issues in Language Studies has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #244 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Issues in Language Studies published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 40. 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 92 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Malaysia (54.7%), Indonesia (19.6%) and Thailand (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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