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Metaphor and Symbol is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Psychology Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1092-6488Verify ISSN ↗1532-7868Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Psychology Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 54 / 1221 | 95th | Q1 |
| Communication | 65 / 541 | 88th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 24 / 169 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Metaphor and Symbol is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 54 of 1221), Q1 in Communication (rank 65 of 541) and Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 24 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Metaphor and Symbol 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.888, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
Metaphor and Symbol is published by Psychology Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1092-6488 and its online ISSN is 1532-7868.
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.
Metaphor and Symbol has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 2.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Metaphor and Symbol published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 24. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (13.1%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and Netherlands (8.8%).
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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