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Reading in a Foreign Language

University of Hawaii Press · United States · Est. 1983

ISSN1539-0578eISSN1539-0578

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.292

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.345

Total Worksi

652

Total Citationsi

14,153

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.56

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Linguistics; Linguistics and Language; Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1983

Annual Volume~ 31 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications652

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

University of Hawaii Press

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1539-0578 / 1539-0578

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

172

2019

119

2020

172

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Linguistics and LanguageQ2

EducationQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Linguistics

Scopus Categories

Linguistics and LanguageEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Second Language Acquisition and LearningEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningReading and Literacy DevelopmentSecond Language Learning and TeachingLexicography and Language StudiesText Readability and SimplificationNatural Language Processing TechniquesEducation and Critical Thinking DevelopmentQualitative Research Methods and EthicsHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Frequently asked questions about Reading in a Foreign Language

Is Reading in a Foreign Language a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Reading in a Foreign Language: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Reading in a Foreign Language?

Reading in a Foreign Language is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.56.

Is Reading in a Foreign Language indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Reading in a Foreign Language is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Reading in a Foreign Language?