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Reading and Writing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0922-4777Verify ISSN ↗1573-0905Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech and Hearing | 3 / 68 | 96th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 58 / 1221 | 95th | Q1 |
| Education | 271 / 1698 | 84th | Q1 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 17 / 77 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Reading and Writing is Q1 in Speech and Hearing (rank 3 of 68), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 58 of 1221) and Q1 in Education (rank 271 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Reading and Writing is indexed in the 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.206, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Reading and Writing is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0922-4777 and its online ISSN is 1573-0905.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reading and Writing has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 2.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 68 Scopus journals in Speech and Hearing.
Reading and Writing published 119 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 164. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22.8%), China (15.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.3%).
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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