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Open Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2300-9969Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 274 / 1137 | 75th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 327 / 1221 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Open Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 274 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 327 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Linguistics 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$848 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Open Linguistics is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2300-9969.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Linguistics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Open Linguistics published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 51. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (19.5%), United States (8.2%) and Jordan (5.1%).
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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