Journal profile

Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics

ISSN 2670-1421 · International Association for Postcolonial Linguistics · Finland

Journal homepage ↗Author guidelines ↗

Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports).

Impact factor—No published value

CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartile—No CiteScore rank

Review timeabout 16 weeksCommunity average

APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)

Acceptance—No reports yet

Articles per year—No count yet

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics features interdisciplinary research on language in postcolonial contexts and on linguistics from a postcolonial perspective. Postcolonial linguists aim to provide new models, theories and analyses that are adequate in a multipolar, postcolonial world, and which can challenge the understandings, conceptualizations and theorizing created by Eurocentric frameworks. Thus, the journal welcomes critical, analytically innovative contributions that provide new evidence and analyses of understudied linguistic practices and language varieties in postcolonial contexts. It also encourages conceptually oriented papers that discuss central questions in this emerging field, including the following: Representations in linguistics. How do we represent words, constructions, and conversations in linguistics? What metalanguage is suitable for analyzing language and linguistic practices? Voices in linguistics. Who gets to speak? How are (post)colonial dynamics of power structured and enacted in public discourses of education, politics, and in society in general? Biases in linguistics. Through what lenses do we study the world and its speakers? How can we escape biases such as Eurocentrism, Anglocentrism, chronocentrism, 'the written language bias', and similar well-documented descriptive and theoretical biases? Ethics in linguistics. How do we study languages, discourses and speakers ethically, in an age of transnationalism, urbanization, and linguistic marginalization?

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief Carsten LevisenPublisher website

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.

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

h-index: 0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
i10-index: 0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
2-year mean citedness: 0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
Share of gold OA articles: 0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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 16 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported): about 16 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01
Peer review: Double 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-NC	2026-11-01
LetPub	No APC	No	—	2026-11-01

Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)

Other fees: No other fees
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)

What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines

Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation

Publisher website · model-extracted, each line checked against the text

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism

Authorship

Authors retain copyright, journal gets right of first publication Model summary

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication.