Journal of Pragmatics

Journal of Pragmatics is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 1 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, together about 54.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aims & ScopeAn Interdisciplinary Journal of Language StudiesSince 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives. Submissions need to engage with current pragmatic theorising of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts, while drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world.The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIAHCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

3.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.01LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

231OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,561OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.02OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

13.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

51.89%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

134LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

58 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to acceptance

136 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

19 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0378-2166

Electronic ISSN

1879-1387

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website