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Language Teaching is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0261-4448Verify ISSN ↗1475-3049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 9 / 1137 | 99th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 10 / 1221 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.7.
Language Teaching is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 9 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 10 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Teaching 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 12.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.494, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Teaching is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0261-4448 and its online ISSN is 1475-3049.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
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 Teaching has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 4.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Language Teaching published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 69. 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (26%), United Kingdom (15.3%) and Spain (10.7%).
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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