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Language and Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics.
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ISSN 1606-822XVerify ISSN ↗2309-5067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 599 / 1137 | 47th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 712 / 1221 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Language and Linguistics is Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 599 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 712 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Language and Linguistics is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.159, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Language and Linguistics is published by Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics. Its print ISSN is 1606-822X and its online ISSN is 2309-5067.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Language and Linguistics has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #399 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Language and Linguistics published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (40.6%), Taiwan (21.5%) and United States (8%).
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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