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Translator is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1355-6509Verify ISSN ↗1757-0409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 198 / 1137 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 232 / 1221 | 80th | Q1 |
| Communication | 200 / 541 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Translator is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 198 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 232 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 200 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Translator 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 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.633, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Translator is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1355-6509 and its online ISSN is 1757-0409.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Translator has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Translator published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 48. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (23.1%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Spain (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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