Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
Dialogue and Discourse
ISSN 2152-9620 · The Dialogue & Discourse Board of Editors · United States
Dialogue and Discourse: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 14 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Dialogue and Discourse is published by The Dialogue & Discourse Board of Editors. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Speech and dialogue systems, Natural Language Processing Techniques and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, together about 41% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on discourse, intended as text that goes beyond the single sentence, and dialogue. Topics within the purview of D&D include: Rigorous linguistic analysis of discourse & dialogue phenomena: reference and anaphora non-sentential utterances and other elliptical phenomena multiparty conversation and classification of conversational types presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles semantics-pragmatics of dialogue acts meta-communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding, intonation in discourse non-verbal communication in discourse Human representation and processing of discourse & dialogue: cognitive (intra-individual) and interactive (inter-individual) processing acquisition, comprehension and production feedback, clarification, correction and repair effects of modality, audience and physical and social context conversational and discursive gestures and expressions Computational / automatic approaches for discourse & dialogue: coreference resolution, including in multimodal communication discourse parsing event and temporal structure natural language understanding, including spoken language understanding natural language generation, including spoken language generation dialogue management and reasoning design and engineering of dialogue systems, including (but not limited to) evaluation, usability, rapid deployment, embodied agents, affect detection, mixed-initiative, adaptation, and user modeling Information states and dynamics of agents in conversational interaction New analytical frameworks advancing theories of discourse and dialogue Innovative methods for the investigation and analysis of discourse and dialogue: motion capture, wearables and other forms of intelligent sensing experiments using mediated, virtual and augmented interactions Overviews and evaluation of new data resources or tools relevant to work on discourse and dialogue in the senses above Comprehensive surveys of existing work in discourse and dialogue on any of the topics mentioned above Please note: D&D welcomes work on discourse and dialogue as linguistic and communicative phenomena. Submissions whose primary contribution lies in social, cultural, political, or sociological analysis rather than language itself are generally outside the journal's scope. Likewise, papers that exclusively focus on sentence-level phenomena /
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
Editor-in-chief David TraumPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Speech and dialogue systemsComputer Science14.1%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science13.6%
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationArts and Humanities13.4%
- Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesArts and Humanities12.6%
- Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisArts and Humanities10.4%
- Discourse Analysis in Language StudiesArts and Humanities6.8%
- Linguistic Studies and Language AcquisitionComputer Science6.3%
- Speech Recognition and SynthesisComputer Science2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | Q1 | 184/1137 | 83rd |
| Linguistics and Language | Q1 | 217/1221 | 82nd |
| Communication | Q2 | 193/541 | 64th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
DBPL Bibliography, Linguistics and Language Behavious Abstracts, Linguistics Abstracts Online, Linguistic Bibliography Online, the MLA International BibliographyPublisher 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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.69LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.54OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 144 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 108 |
| 2025 | 14 | 14 | 122 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 130 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 | 256 |
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 247 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 | 290 |
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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- 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 | — |
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
No processing fees, no pay-per-view fees. Model summary
There are no processing fees, and no pay-per-view fees.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
CC BY 3.0 license. Model summary
Articles are distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Immediate open access journal. Model summary
Dialogue & Discourse provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Committed to highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. Model summary
We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers.
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
- The Dialogue & Discourse Board of Editors
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2152-9620
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Dialogue and Discourse
How long does peer review take at Dialogue and Discourse?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Dialogue and Discourse?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Dialogue and Discourse?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Dialogue and Discourse is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Dialogue and Discourse open access, and what is the APC?
Dialogue and Discourse 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: .