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Language Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1568-4555Verify ISSN ↗1573-1863Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 73 / 1137 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 83 / 1221 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 238 / 1530 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Language Policy is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 73 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 83 of 1221) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 238 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Policy 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.945, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Language Policy is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1568-4555 and its online ISSN is 1573-1863.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 Policy has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #174 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Language Policy published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.9%), Spain (8.5%) and United Kingdom (7.7%).
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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