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Sociolinguistica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0933-1883Verify ISSN ↗1865-939XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 33 / 1186 | 97th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 268 / 1137 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Sociolinguistica is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 33 of 1186) and Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 268 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociolinguistica 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.387, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Sociolinguistica is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0933-1883 and its online ISSN is 1865-939X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociolinguistica has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Sociolinguistica published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 34. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (12.2%), Iceland (11.8%) and United Kingdom (10.8%).
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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