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Per Linguam is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University.
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ISSN 0259-2312Verify ISSN ↗2224-0012Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 431 / 1137 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 522 / 1221 | 57th | Q2 |
| Education | 1266 / 1698 | 25th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 319 / 380 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Per Linguam is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 431 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 522 of 1221) and Q3 in Education (rank 1266 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Per Linguam 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$13 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.
Per Linguam is published by Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University. Its print ISSN is 0259-2312 and its online ISSN is 2224-0012.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Per Linguam has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Per Linguam published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 26. 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 63 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from South Africa (84.4%), Ghana (3.2%) and Iran (1.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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