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Studies in African Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by University of Florida Press.
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ISSN 0039-3533Verify ISSN ↗2154-428XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Florida Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 541 / 1137 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 649 / 1221 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Studies in African Linguistics is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 541 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 649 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Studies in African Linguistics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Studies in African Linguistics is published by University of Florida Press. Its print ISSN is 0039-3533 and its online ISSN is 2154-428X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Studies in African Linguistics has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 2.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Studies in African Linguistics published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 31. 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 73 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.5%), Ghana (10.3%) and Botswana (8.2%).
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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