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Journal of Language and Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1569-2159Verify ISSN ↗1569-9862Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 341 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
| Communication | 122 / 541 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Journal of Language and Politics is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 341 of 1530) and Q1 in Communication (rank 122 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Language and Politics 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.773, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Journal of Language and Politics is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1569-2159 and its online ISSN is 1569-9862.
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 Language and Politics has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #254 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Language and Politics published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 92. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (23.3%), United Kingdom (10.7%) and Czechia (9.8%).
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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