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Linguistic Inquiry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 0024-3892Verify ISSN ↗1530-9150Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 129 / 1137 | 88th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 149 / 1221 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Linguistic Inquiry is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 129 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 149 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Linguistic Inquiry 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.352, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
Linguistic Inquiry is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0024-3892 and its online ISSN is 1530-9150.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Linguistic Inquiry has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #289 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Linguistic Inquiry published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 68. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.7%), United Kingdom (8.3%) and Germany (6.3%).
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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