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Task-Based Language Teaching is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.8). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1877-346XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 35 / 1221 | 97th | Q1 |
| Education | 135 / 1698 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2022, 2018–2019, 2014–2016, 2011–2012), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.8.
Task-Based Language Teaching is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 35 of 1221) and Q1 in Education (rank 135 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Task-Based Language Teaching 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 7.8, quartile Q1, 97th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Task-Based Language Teaching is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1877-346X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Task-Based Language Teaching has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Task-Based Language Teaching published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 55. 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.
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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