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Language Acquisition and Language Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0925-0123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 545 / 1221 | 55th | Q2 |
| Speech and Hearing | 53 / 68 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 324 / 380 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2024, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 545 of 1221), Q4 in Speech and Hearing (rank 53 of 68) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 324 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 0925-0123.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #600 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Language Acquisition and Language Disorders published 37 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 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.
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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