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Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Universidade de Vigo, Faculty of Science.
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ISSN 1697-0381Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade de Vigo, Faculty of Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 131 / 1137 | 88th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 151 / 1221 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 131 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 151 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.496, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics is published by Universidade de Vigo, Faculty of Science. Its ISSN is 1697-0381.
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.
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 16. 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 45 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (54.4%), Belgium (6.7%) and United Kingdom (5.6%). 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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