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ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 0019-0829Verify ISSN ↗1783-1490Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 113 / 1137 | 90th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 131 / 1221 | 89th | Q1 |
| Education | 512 / 1698 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2011–2012), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 113 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 131 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 512 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.611, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0019-0829 and its online ISSN is 1783-1490.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #894 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) published 5 papers in 2015. 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.
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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