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Lebende Sprachen is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0023-9909Verify ISSN ↗1868-0267Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 423 / 1137 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 513 / 1221 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1956–1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Lebende Sprachen is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 423 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 513 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Lebende Sprachen 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 0.9, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Lebende Sprachen is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0023-9909 and its online ISSN is 1868-0267.
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.
Lebende Sprachen has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #460 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Lebende Sprachen published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (33.9%), Spain (21.5%) and Austria (9.1%).
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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