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Journal of World Languages is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), DOAJ. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2169-8252Verify ISSN ↗2169-8260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 92 / 1221 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2014–2018), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of World Languages is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 92 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of World Languages is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.752, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
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 World Languages is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2169-8252 and its online ISSN is 2169-8260.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of World Languages has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of World Languages published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 37. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (30%), Australia (14.3%) and United States (11.5%).
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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