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Topics in Language Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0271-8294Verify ISSN ↗1550-3259Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 126 / 1137 | 88th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 146 / 1221 | 88th | Q1 |
| Speech and Hearing | 21 / 68 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Topics in Language Disorders is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 126 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 146 of 1221) and Q2 in Speech and Hearing (rank 21 of 68), by CiteScore 2025.
Topics in Language Disorders is indexed in the 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.533, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Topics in Language Disorders is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0271-8294 and its online ISSN is 1550-3259.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Topics in Language Disorders has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 1.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Topics in Language Disorders published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 78 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.4%), Canada (5.1%) and New Zealand (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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