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Language and Dialogue is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2210-4119Verify ISSN ↗2210-4127Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 72 / 1186 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 362 / 1434 | 74th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 342 / 1137 | 69th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 416 / 1221 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Language and Dialogue is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 72 of 1186), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 362 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 342 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Language and Dialogue 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
Language and Dialogue is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2210-4119 and its online ISSN is 2210-4127.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Language and Dialogue has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Language and Dialogue published 38 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (17.3%), United States (16.5%) and Italy (16.5%).
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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