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Literacy Research and Instruction is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1938-8063Verify ISSN ↗1938-8071Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 124 / 1221 | 89th | Q1 |
| Education | 492 / 1698 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Literacy Research and Instruction is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 124 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 492 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Literacy Research and Instruction 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.746, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
Literacy Research and Instruction is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1938-8063 and its online ISSN is 1938-8071.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Literacy Research and Instruction has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #154 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Literacy Research and Instruction published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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.
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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