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Oceanic Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Hawaii Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0029-8115Verify ISSN ↗1527-9421Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 372 / 1137 | 67th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 452 / 1221 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Oceanic Linguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 372 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 452 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Oceanic Linguistics 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Oceanic Linguistics is published by University of Hawaii Press. Its print ISSN is 0029-8115 and its online ISSN is 1527-9421.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Oceanic Linguistics has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #643 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Oceanic Linguistics published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 39. 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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