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Language Policy (The Netherlands) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1571-5361Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 354 / 1221 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 776 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
| Education | 1067 / 1698 | 37th | 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 2016–present (also 2006–2008), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Language Policy (The Netherlands) is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 354 of 1221), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 776 of 1530) and Q3 in Education (rank 1067 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Policy (The Netherlands) 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 1.4, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Language Policy (The Netherlands) is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 1571-5361.
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 Policy (The Netherlands) has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #642 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Language Policy (The Netherlands) published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 62. 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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