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Research in the Teaching of English is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SSCI. Published by National Council of Teachers of English.
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ISSN 0034-527XVerify ISSN ↗1943-2348Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 219 / 1137 | 80th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 256 / 1221 | 79th | Q1 |
| Education | 844 / 1698 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1996–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Research in the Teaching of English is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 219 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 256 of 1221) and Q2 in Education (rank 844 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in the Teaching of English 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.365, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 52.
Research in the Teaching of English is published by National Council of Teachers of English. Its print ISSN is 0034-527X and its online ISSN is 1943-2348.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research in the Teaching of English has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #266 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Research in the Teaching of English published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 49. 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 78 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (86.2%), Brazil (2.6%) and Spain (1.9%). 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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