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Language Testing in Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 2229-0443Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 42 / 1137 | 96th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 47 / 1221 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Language Testing in Asia is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 42 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 47 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Language Testing in Asia 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.918, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
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$1,790 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 Testing in Asia is published by SpringerOpen. Its ISSN is 2229-0443.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Language Testing in Asia has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 4.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Language Testing in Asia published 83 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (24.8%), Japan (7.8%) and Vietnam (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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