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Reading in a Foreign Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Hawaii Press.
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ISSN 1539-0578Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 305 / 1221 | 75th | Q1 |
| Education | 957 / 1698 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Reading in a Foreign Language is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 305 of 1221) and Q3 in Education (rank 957 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Reading in a Foreign Language 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.292, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Reading in a Foreign Language is published by University of Hawaii Press. Its ISSN is 1539-0578.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reading in a Foreign Language has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #349 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Reading in a Foreign Language published 49 papers in 2025. 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 77 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.6%), Japan (26.2%) and Macao SAR China (8.4%).
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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