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Pragmatics and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1878-9714Verify ISSN ↗1878-9722Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 277 / 1137 | 75th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 330 / 1221 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Pragmatics and Society is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 277 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 330 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Pragmatics and Society 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 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 0.352, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Pragmatics and Society is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1878-9714 and its online ISSN is 1878-9722.
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 Society has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #322 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Pragmatics and Society published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 99. 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 China (35.4%), Japan (7.9%) and Nigeria (6.9%).
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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