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Journal of Second Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2542-3835Verify ISSN ↗2542-3843Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 155 / 1137 | 86th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 178 / 1221 | 85th | Q1 |
| Education | 642 / 1698 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Journal of Second Language Studies is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 155 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 178 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 642 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Second Language Studies 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 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Second Language Studies is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2542-3835 and its online ISSN is 2542-3843.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Second Language Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of Second Language Studies published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 28. 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 88 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.3%), Japan (15.3%) and China (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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