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Journal of Sociolinguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1360-6441Verify ISSN ↗1467-9841Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,730 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 38 / 891 | 95th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 15 / 254 | 94th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 90 / 1137 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 103 / 1221 | 91st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 277 / 1530 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Journal of Sociolinguistics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 38 of 891), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 15 of 254) and Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 90 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sociolinguistics is indexed in the 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.830, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,730 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 Sociolinguistics is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1360-6441 and its online ISSN is 1467-9841.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sociolinguistics has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Sociolinguistics published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 91. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.9%), United Kingdom (18.7%) and China (5.1%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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