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Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1383-4924Verify ISSN ↗1572-8552Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 385 / 1221 | 68th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 229 / 692 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 2000–2001, 1997–1998), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 385 of 1221) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 229 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Germanic 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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 Comparative Germanic Linguistics is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1383-4924 and its online ISSN is 1572-8552.
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 Comparative Germanic Linguistics has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #388 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 10. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (29.9%), United States (18.1%) and Norway (13.5%).
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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