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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 0167-6164Verify ISSN ↗1613-3811Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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 1991–present (also 1979–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 501 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 604 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of African Languages and 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 0.124, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0167-6164 and its online ISSN is 1613-3811.
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.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #580 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 18. 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 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (19%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Germany (9.6%).
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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