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Journal of Language Contact

Journal of Language Contact Publishers · France · Est. 2007

ISSN1955-2629

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2022-04-19). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.215

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.011

Total Worksi

461

Total Citationsi

5,568

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.97

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Language & Linguistics; Linguistics and Language.

General Information

Country / RegionFrance

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2007

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications461

Publisher OrgBrill

OA Since2016

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Journal of Language Contact Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1955-2629

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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

386

2019

2020

199

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

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Language & Linguistics

Scopus Categories

Linguistics and Language

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Linguistic Variation and MorphologyMultilingual Education and PolicySyntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLinguistics, Language Diversity, and IdentitySpanish Linguistics and Language StudiesHistorical Linguistics and Language StudiesLanguage, Discourse, Communication StrategiesLinguistic and Sociocultural StudiesLinguistics and language evolutionLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Language Contact

Is Journal of Language Contact a predatory journal?

Journal of Language Contact was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2022-04-19). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of Language Contact?

Journal of Language Contact 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 0.97.

Is Journal of Language Contact indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Language Contact is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Language Contact?