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Reading and Writing (South Africa) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 2079-8245Verify ISSN ↗2308-1422Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 185 / 1137 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 218 / 1221 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Education | 746 / 1698 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Reading and Writing (South Africa) is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 185 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 218 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 746 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Reading and Writing (South Africa) 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.328, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$718 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 (South Africa) is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2079-8245 and its online ISSN is 2308-1422.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Reading and Writing (South Africa) has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Reading and Writing (South Africa) published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 32. 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (88.2%), Oman (2.2%) and Malaysia (1.1%). 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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