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Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Hunan Normal University Press.
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ISSN 2096-4374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hunan Normal University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 601 / 1186 | 49th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 843 / 1137 | 25th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 945 / 1221 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 601 of 1186), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 843 of 1137) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 945 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is published by Hunan Normal University Press. Its ISSN is 2096-4374.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 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 78 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (47.4%), United States (10.9%) and United Kingdom (6.4%).
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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