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Muttersprache is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. Published by Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V..
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ISSN 0027-514XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 979 / 1137 | 13th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1075 / 1221 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Muttersprache is Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 979 of 1137) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1075 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Muttersprache is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Muttersprache is published by Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V. Its ISSN is 0027-514X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Muttersprache has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #741 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Muttersprache published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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