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Research on Language and Social Interaction is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0835-1813Verify ISSN ↗1532-7973Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 97 / 1221 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Communication | 96 / 541 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 109 / 315 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1987–1991), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Research on Language and Social Interaction is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 97 of 1221), Q1 in Communication (rank 96 of 541) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 109 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Research on Language and Social Interaction 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 82.
Research on Language and Social Interaction is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0835-1813 and its online ISSN is 1532-7973.
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.
Research on Language and Social Interaction has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 4.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Research on Language and Social Interaction published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 30. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.8%), Finland (14.5%) and United States (13.5%).
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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