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Language Problems and Language Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0272-2690Verify ISSN ↗1569-9889Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 362 / 1221 | 70th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 791 / 1530 | 48th | Q3 |
| Communication | 286 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Language Problems and Language Planning is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 362 of 1221), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 791 of 1530) and Q3 in Communication (rank 286 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Problems and Language Planning 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.297, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
Language Problems and Language Planning is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0272-2690 and its online ISSN is 1569-9889.
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 Problems and Language Planning has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Language Problems and Language Planning published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 33. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (10.9%), China (8.9%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
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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