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Language Teaching for Young Learners is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2589-2053Verify ISSN ↗2589-207XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 228 / 1137 | 79th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 265 / 1221 | 78th | Q1 |
| Education | 864 / 1698 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Language Teaching for Young Learners is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 228 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 265 of 1221) and Q3 in Education (rank 864 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Teaching for Young Learners is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.316, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Language Teaching for Young Learners is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2589-2053 and its online ISSN is 2589-207X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Language Teaching for Young Learners has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Language Teaching for Young Learners published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 29. 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 70 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (19.6%), China (11%) and United Kingdom (8.3%).
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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