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Psychology of Language and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5). Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 1234-2238Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 197 / 1137 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 231 / 1221 | 81st | Q1 |
| Communication | 199 / 541 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 217 / 380 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 108 / 169 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Psychology of Language and Communication is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 197 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 231 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 199 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Psychology of Language and Communication is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1, 82nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.288, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Psychology of Language and Communication is published by Sciendo. Its ISSN is 1234-2238.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Psychology of Language and Communication has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Psychology of Language and Communication published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 25. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.9%), Poland (14.3%) and Netherlands (5.6%).
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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