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Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), DOAJ. Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego.
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Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 387 / 1221 | 68th | Q2 |
| Education | 1125 / 1698 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 293 / 380 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 387 of 1221), Q3 in Education (rank 1125 of 1698) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 293 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition 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 1.3, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.298, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition is published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego. Its print ISSN is 2450-5455 and its online ISSN is 2451-2125.
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.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 27. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Poland (36.2%), Czechia (6.6%) and United States (6.1%).
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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