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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2199-2894Verify ISSN ↗2199-2908Verify 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 | 389 / 1137 | 65th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 474 / 1221 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 389 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 474 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.189, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
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 Historical Sociolinguistics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2199-2894 and its online ISSN is 2199-2908.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #351 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics published 28 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.6%), Germany (12.6%) and United States (10.5%).
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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