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LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1879-7865Verify ISSN ↗1879-7873Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 337 / 1137 | 70th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 409 / 1221 | 66th | Q2 |
| Communication | 314 / 541 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 337 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 409 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 314 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.246, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1879-7865 and its online ISSN is 1879-7873.
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.
LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #334 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 17. 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 63 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (32.5%), Sweden (14.3%) and Italy (11.9%).
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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