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Studies in Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0378-4177Verify ISSN ↗1569-9978Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 250 / 1137 | 78th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 298 / 1221 | 75th | Q1 |
| Communication | 243 / 541 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1977–2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Studies in Language is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 250 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 298 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 243 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Studies in Language is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.521, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
Studies in Language is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0378-4177 and its online ISSN is 1569-9978.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Studies in Language has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 2.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Studies in Language published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 57. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.7%), China (10%) and Russia (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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