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NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Karadeniz Technical University.
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ISSN 2148-4066Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Karadeniz Technical University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 266 / 1186 | 77th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 584 / 1137 | 48th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 696 / 1221 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Communication | 434 / 541 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 266 of 1186), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 584 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 696 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.160, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies is published by Karadeniz Technical University. Its ISSN is 2148-4066.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 31. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (38.3%), India (18.4%) and Iraq (9.5%).
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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