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South African Journal of African Languages is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0257-2117Verify ISSN ↗2305-1159Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 229 / 1186 | 80th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 559 / 1137 | 50th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 668 / 1221 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
South African Journal of African Languages is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 229 of 1186), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 559 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 668 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of African Languages 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
South African Journal of African Languages is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0257-2117 and its online ISSN is 2305-1159.
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.
South African Journal of African Languages has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
South African Journal of African Languages published 86 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (77.7%), Nigeria (4.6%) and United States (2.1%). 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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