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Metaphor and the Social World is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2210-4070Verify ISSN ↗2210-4097Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 195 / 1137 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 228 / 1221 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Metaphor and the Social World is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 195 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 228 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Metaphor and the Social World 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.531, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Metaphor and the Social World is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2210-4070 and its online ISSN is 2210-4097.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Metaphor and the Social World has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #280 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Metaphor and the Social World published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 30. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (11.7%), United States (11.3%) and Norway (10.3%).
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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