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Korean Language in America is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 2332-0346Verify ISSN ↗2374-670XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 880 / 1137 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 985 / 1221 | 19th | Q4 |
| Education | 1598 / 1698 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Korean Language in America is Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 880 of 1137), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 985 of 1221) and Q4 in Education (rank 1598 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Korean Language in America 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Korean Language in America is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2332-0346 and its online ISSN is 2374-670X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Korean Language in America has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #848 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Korean Language in America published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 18. 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 51 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.5%), South Korea (15.7%) and Canada (7.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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