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World Journal of English Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Sciedu Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1925-0703Verify ISSN ↗1925-0711Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciedu Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 40 / 1186 | 96th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 284 / 1137 | 75th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 338 / 1221 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Education | 1023 / 1698 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
World Journal of English Language is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 40 of 1186), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 284 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 338 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Journal of English Language 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 1.5, quartile Q1, 96th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
World Journal of English Language is published by Sciedu Press. Its print ISSN is 1925-0703 and its online ISSN is 1925-0711.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Journal of English Language has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
World Journal of English Language published 286 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 434. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (30.6%), Malaysia (13.6%) and Thailand (7.1%).
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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