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Language, Discourse and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), DOAJ. Published by International Sociological Association.
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ISSN 2239-4192Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Sociological Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 290 / 536 | 45th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 498 / 744 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1045 / 1530 | 31st | Q3 |
| Communication | 389 / 541 | 28th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Language, Discourse and Society is Q3 in Anthropology (rank 290 of 536), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 498 of 744) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1045 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Language, Discourse and Society 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 Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Language, Discourse and Society is published by International Sociological Association. Its ISSN is 2239-4192.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Language, Discourse and Society has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #445 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Language, Discourse and Society published 52 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 22 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (9.1%), Malaysia (9.1%) and Lebanon (9.1%).
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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