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Linguistic Landscape is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2214-9953Verify ISSN ↗2214-9961Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 92 / 1137 | 91st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 106 / 1221 | 91st | Q1 |
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 4.1.
Linguistic Landscape is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 92 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 106 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Linguistic Landscape 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.644, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Linguistic Landscape is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2214-9953 and its online ISSN is 2214-9961.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Linguistic Landscape has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #123 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Linguistic Landscape published 30 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (11.5%), United States (9.4%) and United Kingdom (7.3%).
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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