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Pragmatics and Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0929-0907Verify ISSN ↗1569-9943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 404 / 1137 | 64th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 492 / 1221 | 59th | Q2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 105 / 254 | 58th | Q2 |
| Computer Science (all) | 215 / 241 | 10th | Q4 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 85 / 93 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1993–2014), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Pragmatics and Cognition is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 404 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 492 of 1221) and Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 105 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Pragmatics and Cognition is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
Pragmatics and Cognition is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0929-0907 and its online ISSN is 1569-9943.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pragmatics and Cognition has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Pragmatics and Cognition published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 27. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (23.6%), United Kingdom (15.7%) and Greece (7.4%).
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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