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Sociolinguistic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 1750-8649Verify ISSN ↗1750-8657Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 365 / 1137 | 67th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 445 / 1221 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 912 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Sociolinguistic Studies is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 365 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 445 of 1221) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 912 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociolinguistic 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.218, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Sociolinguistic Studies is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 1750-8649 and its online ISSN is 1750-8657.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociolinguistic Studies has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #342 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Sociolinguistic Studies published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 48. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Spain (19.3%), United Kingdom (8.9%) and United States (7.6%).
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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