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Pragmatics and Cognition

John Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands · Est. 1993

ISSN1569-9943

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI · AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.35

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.453

Total Worksi

897

Total Citationsi

13,602

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.58

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Pragmatics and Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal that brings together linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy, ethology, and cognitive anthropology. It also covers fields such as History and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics and Language, Computer Science (miscellaneous), and Behavioral Neuroscience.

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General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1993

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications897

Publisher OrgJohn Benjamins Publishing Company

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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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1569-9943

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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

148

2019

2020

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 LanguageQ1

History and Philosophy of ScienceQ2

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Q3

Behavioral NeuroscienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Language & LinguisticsLinguistics

Scopus Categories

Computer Science (miscellaneous)History and Philosophy of ScienceLinguistics and LanguageBehavioral Neuroscience

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Language, Metaphor, and CognitionLanguage, Discourse, Communication StrategiesDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLinguistics and Discourse AnalysisPhilosophy and Theoretical ScienceAction Observation and SynchronizationEmbodied and Extended CognitionCategorization, perception, and languageEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Frequently asked questions about Pragmatics and Cognition

Is Pragmatics and Cognition a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Pragmatics and Cognition: 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 Pragmatics and Cognition?

Pragmatics and Cognition 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 1.58.

Is Pragmatics and Cognition indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Pragmatics and Cognition is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.