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Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by J.B. Metzler.
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ISSN 0049-8653Verify ISSN ↗2365-953XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: J.B. Metzler
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 441 / 1186 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 741 / 1137 | 34th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 853 / 1221 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 441 of 1186), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 741 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 853 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.200, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik is published by J.B. Metzler. Its print ISSN is 0049-8653 and its online ISSN is 2365-953X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #200 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 61. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (63.8%), Austria (16.5%) and Italy (8%). 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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