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Journal of Politeness Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 1612-5681Verify ISSN ↗1613-4877Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 101 / 1434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 116 / 1137 | 89th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 138 / 1221 | 88th | Q1 |
| Communication | 133 / 541 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 135 / 315 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Politeness Research is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 101 of 1434), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 116 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 138 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Politeness Research 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.049, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Politeness Research is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 1612-5681 and its online ISSN is 1613-4877.
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 Politeness Research has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 2.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Politeness Research published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 27. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (19.6%), Australia (7.2%) and United States (7.1%).
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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