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Rhetoric Society Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0277-3945Verify ISSN ↗1930-322XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 405 / 1221 | 66th | Q2 |
| Communication | 311 / 541 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 405 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 311 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.400, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0277-3945 and its online ISSN is 1930-322X.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #302 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 74. 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 41 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.1%), Spain (2.4%) and Canada (2.4%). 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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