Open Linguistics

Open Linguistics is published by De Gruyter and is in Zone 2 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Open Linguistics is an academic peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of linguistics. The objective of this journal is to foster free exchange of ideas and provide an appropriate platform for presenting, discussing and disseminating new concepts, current trends, theoretical developments and research findings related to a broad spectrum of topics: descriptive linguistics, theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Your Benefits Why submitAuthors of Open Linguistics benefit from: fair and constructive peer reviewquick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictionspromotion of each published articlefree language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regionsdistribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwideliberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service PorticoWhy readOpen Linguist ics provides an international publishing platform for research topics in linguistics. The journal publishes the most up-to-date developments, discoveries and practice .Find us on Facebook.Article Processing ChargesIn order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Linguistics is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €750. This fee is used to cover the costs of manuscript processing.Publication Ethics and Editorial PoliciesDetailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.Call for PapersComplement clauses within and across languagesCoordinating Editors: Folkert Kuiken, Ineke Vedder & Thom WestveerManuscript submission deadline: 01 September 2026Genealogy, Contact, and Typological Change: Insights from the Uralic Languages Coordinating Editors: Nikolett F. Gulyás, Helle Metslang, Miina Norvik Manuscript submission deadline: 02 February 2027 Call for EditorsInterested in becoming a Section Editor in Open Linguistics? Click here to browse the job description and the Editor's responsibili ties, and fill in the application form https://forms.office.com/e/MT3z5774gV.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LINGUISTICS

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, OCLCPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

1.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

31OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

116OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.58OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

39LetPub · 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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 25 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 36 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

De Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2300-9969

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ