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Language and Sociocultural Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 2051-9699Verify ISSN ↗2051-9702Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 277 / 1434 | 80th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 346 / 1221 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2014–2023), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Language and Sociocultural Theory is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 277 of 1434) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 346 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Language and Sociocultural Theory 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Language and Sociocultural Theory is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 2051-9699 and its online ISSN is 2051-9702.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Language and Sociocultural Theory has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #921 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Language and Sociocultural Theory published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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 44 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (59.1%), Canada (4.5%) and Iran (4.5%). 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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