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Language Learning and Language Teaching is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1569-9471Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 274 / 1221 | 77th | Q1 |
| Education | 898 / 1698 | 47th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 251 / 380 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2024 (also 2018–2020, 2002–2016), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.
Language Learning and Language Teaching is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 274 of 1221), Q3 in Education (rank 898 of 1698) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 251 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Learning and Language Teaching 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 2, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
Language Learning and Language Teaching is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1569-9471.
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 Learning and Language Teaching has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #339 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Language Learning and Language Teaching published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 84. 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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