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Journal of Language, Literature and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 2051-2856Verify ISSN ↗2051-2864Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 572 / 1186 | 51st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 1038 / 1434 | 27th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 829 / 1137 | 27th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 929 / 1221 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 572 of 1186), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1038 of 1434) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 829 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2051-2856 and its online ISSN is 2051-2864.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 20. 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 61 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Australia (38.5%), China (18%) and India (13.1%).
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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