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Second Language Learning and Teaching is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2193-7648Verify ISSN ↗2193-7656Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 493 / 1137 | 56th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 594 / 1221 | 51st | Q2 |
| Education | 1369 / 1698 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Second Language Learning and Teaching is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 493 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 594 of 1221) and Q4 in Education (rank 1369 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Second Language Learning and Teaching is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Second Language Learning and Teaching is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2193-7648 and its online ISSN is 2193-7656.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Second Language Learning and Teaching has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #309 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Second Language Learning and Teaching published 119 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 137. 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.
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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