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Journal of Language and Discrimination is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9). Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2397-2637Verify ISSN ↗2397-2645Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 277 / 1221 | 77th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 299 / 744 | 59th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 640 / 1530 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Language and Discrimination is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 277 of 1221), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 299 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 640 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Language and Discrimination 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 1.9, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.226, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Language and Discrimination is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2397-2637 and its online ISSN is 2397-2645.
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 Language and Discrimination has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #359 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Language and Discrimination published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 17. 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 79 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (24.7%), Italy (17.1%) and United States (15.2%).
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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