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Terminology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0929-9971Verify ISSN ↗1569-9994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 216 / 1137 | 81st | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 111 / 296 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Communication | 218 / 541 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1994–1998), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Terminology is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 216 of 1137), Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 111 of 296) and Q2 in Communication (rank 218 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Terminology 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.343, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Terminology is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0929-9971 and its online ISSN is 1569-9994.
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.
Terminology has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #322 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Terminology published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 21. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (23.2%), Spain (15.4%) and Canada (8.5%).
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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