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South African Journal of Communication Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 0379-8046Verify ISSN ↗2225-4765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 146 / 1137 | 87th | Q1 |
| Communication | 159 / 541 | 70th | Q2 |
| Speech and Hearing | 22 / 68 | 68th | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 70 / 129 | 46th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 94 / 169 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
South African Journal of Communication Disorders is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 146 of 1137), Q2 in Communication (rank 159 of 541) and Q2 in Speech and Hearing (rank 22 of 68), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
South African Journal of Communication Disorders 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$563 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.
South African Journal of Communication Disorders is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0379-8046 and its online ISSN is 2225-4765.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Communication Disorders has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
South African Journal of Communication Disorders published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 123. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (88.9%), United States (3%) and Saudi Arabia (3%). 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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