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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University.
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ISSN 1726-541XVerify ISSN ↗2224-3380Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 410 / 1137 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 498 / 1221 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 410 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 498 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$149 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.
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus is published by Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University. Its print ISSN is 1726-541X and its online ISSN is 2224-3380.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #207 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 41. 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 77 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (58.8%), Netherlands (5.4%) and United States (5.3%). 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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