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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2191-9216Verify ISSN ↗2191-933XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 134 / 1137 | 88th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 156 / 1221 | 87th | Q1 |
| Communication | 150 / 541 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 134 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 156 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 150 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.794, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 English as a Lingua Franca is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2191-9216 and its online ISSN is 2191-933X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 26. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.2%), Spain (13.9%) and Türkiye (7.4%).
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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