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L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE).
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ISSN 1567-6617Verify ISSN ↗1573-1731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 28 / 1186 | 97th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 233 / 1137 | 79th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 278 / 1221 | 77th | Q1 |
| Education | 908 / 1698 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 28 of 1186), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 233 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 278 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.334, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature is published by International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE). Its print ISSN is 1567-6617 and its online ISSN is 1573-1731.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 33. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (13.7%), Norway (12.8%) and Germany (11.6%).
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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