Journal profile
Constructions
ISSN 1860-2010 · University and State Library Düsseldorf · Germany
Constructions: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports).
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Constructions offers a forum for linguistic research concerned with the structure, acquisition, use, function, and diachronic development of ‘constructions’ in language and linguistics. One of the long-term goals is to establish contact between researchers from various cognitive-functional camps. The term ‘construction’ as understood in this journal is deliberately chosen to have a broad extension and not be limited to any specific approach within Construction Grammar.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Stefan HartmannPublisher website
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Free Journal Network (FJN)Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer review, Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- empirical papersBoth theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.Length not stated
- theoretical papersBoth theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.Length not stated
- work-in-progress reportsEmpirical papers can be work-in-progress reports, as long as the research question(s) and methods of analysis are made transparent.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- Publication ethics Publication ethics and malpractice statement
Publication ethics and malpractice statement: ethical conduct required; misconduct includes plagiarism, misrepresentation of authorship, fabricated data, undisclosed conflicts of interest; retraction possible. Model summary
The research reported in manuscripts submitted to Constructions must have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and must comply with all relevant legislation. For details and best-practices, see Wager & Kleinert (2011), available here. The members of the editorial board, and the editors-in-chief in particular, will do their best to prevent misconduct by informing the authors of the e…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Listed in DOAJ and member of the Free Journal Network. Model summary
"Constructions" is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and is a member of the Free Journal Network (FJN).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access policy
Open access policy: CC-BY 4.0 by default, other Creative Commons licenses possible on request; authors retain copyright. Model summary
All new papers are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license by default. Authors can choose a different license upon request, preferably one of the Creative Commons licenses. As a minimum requirement, the license must ensure that the paper is openly available for everyone, for free, forever. Papers published before the transfer of "Constructions" to HHU Düsseldorf in 2021 are not published under Creativ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Policy
Peer review policy: double-blind peer review; at least two reviewers for initial submissions, at least one for resubmissions after major revisions. Model summary
All papers submitted to Constructions are subject to double-blind peer review. We rely on at least two reviewers for initial submissions and at least one reviewer for resubmissions of papers for which the reviewers requested major revisions. To make sure that the review process remains anonymous, we ask reviewers to refrain from trying to find out the identity of authors. We will never reveal the …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Repository policy: preprints, accepted versions, and final published versions may be uploaded to repositories. Model summary
Authors are welcome to upload preprints, accepted versions, and the final published versions of their papers on pertinent repositories, both non-commercial ones such as Psyarxiv and commercial ones such as ResearchGate.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Country or region
- Germany
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1860-2010
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 18, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Constructions
How long does peer review take at Constructions?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Constructions?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Constructions is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Constructions open access, and what is the APC?
Constructions is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .