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Journal of Communication Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0021-9924Verify ISSN ↗1873-7994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,960 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 132 / 1221 | 89th | Q1 |
| LPN and LVN | 4 / 15 | 76th | Q1 |
| Speech and Hearing | 18 / 68 | 74th | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 78 / 169 | 54th | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 63 / 129 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Journal of Communication Disorders is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 132 of 1221), Q1 in LPN and LVN (rank 4 of 15) and Q2 in Speech and Hearing (rank 18 of 68), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Communication Disorders is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.706, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,960 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Communication Disorders is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0021-9924 and its online ISSN is 1873-7994.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Communication Disorders has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 1.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #160 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Communication Disorders published 83 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.5%), Israel (9.5%) and Canada (5.8%).
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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