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Sign Language Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Gallaudet University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0302-1475Verify ISSN ↗1533-6263Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 439 / 1137 | 61st | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 528 / 1221 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Sign Language Studies is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 439 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 528 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Sign Language Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.372, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Sign Language Studies is published by Gallaudet University Press. Its print ISSN is 0302-1475 and its online ISSN is 1533-6263.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sign Language Studies has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #337 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Sign Language Studies published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 50. 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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