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Journal of Language Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2058-4571Verify ISSN ↗2058-458XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,943 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 184 / 1221 | 84th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 189 / 380 | 50th | Q2 |
| Developmental Neuroscience | 25 / 38 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Language Evolution is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 184 of 1221), Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 189 of 380) and Q3 in Developmental Neuroscience (rank 25 of 38), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Language Evolution 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.489, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,943 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 Language Evolution is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 2058-4571 and its online ISSN is 2058-458X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 Evolution has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #459 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Language Evolution published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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 52 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (18.1%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and United States (12.8%).
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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