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Journal of Asia TEFL is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
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ISSN 1738-3102Verify ISSN ↗2466-1511Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 361 / 1221 | 70th | Q2 |
| Education | 1084 / 1698 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 2007, 2004), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Asia TEFL is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 361 of 1221) and Q3 in Education (rank 1084 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Asia TEFL 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.226, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Journal of Asia TEFL is published by The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Its print ISSN is 1738-3102 and its online ISSN is 2466-1511.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Asia TEFL has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #508 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Asia TEFL published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 138. 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 35 research articles (2025), authors are most often from South Korea (25.7%), Indonesia (20%) and Thailand (12.9%).
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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