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Journal of Language Contact is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Journal of Language Contact Publishers.
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ISSN 1877-4091Verify ISSN ↗1955-2629Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Journal of Language Contact Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 476 / 1137 | 58th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 575 / 1221 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Language Contact is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 476 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 575 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Language Contact 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Journal of Language Contact is published by Journal of Language Contact Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1877-4091 and its online ISSN is 1955-2629.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Language Contact has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of Language Contact published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 52. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.6%), Germany (15.3%) and United Kingdom (6.5%).
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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