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World Englishes is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0883-2919Verify ISSN ↗1467-971XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 48 / 536 | 91st | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 104 / 1137 | 90th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 121 / 1221 | 90th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 330 / 1530 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
World Englishes is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 48 of 536), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 104 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 121 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Englishes 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.827, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
World Englishes is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0883-2919 and its online ISSN is 1467-971X.
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.
World Englishes has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
World Englishes published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 102. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.5%), United States (10%) and Australia (7.3%).
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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