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Text and Talk is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 1860-7330Verify ISSN ↗1860-7349Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 111 / 891 | 87th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 190 / 1137 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 223 / 1221 | 81st | Q1 |
| Communication | 195 / 541 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Text and Talk is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 111 of 891), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 190 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 223 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Text and Talk 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Text and Talk is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 1860-7330 and its online ISSN is 1860-7349.
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.
Text and Talk has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Text and Talk published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 73. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (30.2%), United Kingdom (8.3%) and Australia (5.7%).
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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