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Historiographia Linguistica

John Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands · Est. 1974

ISSN1569-9781

SJR Q4✓ WOS SSCI✓ WOS A&HCI✓ 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

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.107

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.21

Total Worksi

1,892

Total Citationsi

7,441

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.47

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Language & Linguistics; Linguistics; History; Linguistics and Language.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1974

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,892

Publisher OrgJohn Benjamins Publishing Company

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

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1569-9781

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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?

N/A

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

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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.

HistoryQ4

Linguistics and LanguageQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Language & LinguisticsLinguistics

Scopus Categories

HistoryLinguistics and Language

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Historical Linguistics and Language StudiesLinguistics and language evolutionSpanish Linguistics and Language StudiesLinguistic research and analysisLexicography and Language StudiesLinguistics and Discourse AnalysisLinguistic Variation and MorphologyHistorical and Linguistic StudiesHistorical and Literary StudiesSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Frequently asked questions about Historiographia Linguistica

Is Historiographia Linguistica a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Historiographia Linguistica: 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 Historiographia Linguistica?

Historiographia Linguistica 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 0.47.

Is Historiographia Linguistica indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Historiographia Linguistica is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Historiographia Linguistica?