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Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 0024-3949Verify ISSN ↗1613-396XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 183 / 1137 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 216 / 1221 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 183 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 216 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Linguistics 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.647, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Linguistics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0024-3949 and its online ISSN is 1613-396X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Linguistics has an h-index of 138 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Linguistics published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 66. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (17.7%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and United States (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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