Journal profile
Pragmatica Sociocultural
ISSN 2194-8305 · eISSN 2194-8313 · De Gruyter · Germany
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Pragmatica Sociocultural: fully open access; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025; the journal's website says it has ceased publication.
The journal's website says it has ceased publication: This journal has ceased publication with De Gruyter Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Pragmatica Sociocultural is published by De Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis and Linguistics and Language Analysis, together about 54.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
About this journal This journal has ceased publication with De Gruyter Objective Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is a biannual publication that encourages the international dissemination of research results on theoretical and applied linguistics, focusing on social and cultural aspects of the Spanish language in all its forms and expressions. SOPRAG publishes high-quality papers that are useful to establish the interdependence between pragmatic, social, and cultural aspects of the Spanish language and its relations with other languages. SOPRAG welcomes manuscripts with thematic, theoretical, empirical, and terminological aspects in the area of Pragmatics, with an emphasis on sociocultural perspectives. SOPRAG accepts original papers preferably written in Spanish, but will consider manuscripts written in other Romance languages and English. Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is published in two issues, 500-page volume per year, in print and electronic formats, with a peer, double-blind, review process. The electronic format of the journal is entirely open access, without authorship charges or readership embargoes. SOPRAG is internationally indexed in databases such as EBSCO, SCOPUS, and MLA, among many others. Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) is published with the financial support of Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden), Stockholm University, and EDICE Program (edice.org). Topics Applied linguistics Theoretical linguistics Spanish language Pragmatics Sociocultural linguistics History Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG) was founded by Diana Bravo.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesArts and Humanities22.7%
- Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisArts and Humanities19.6%
- Linguistics and Language AnalysisArts and Humanities12.2%
- Spanish Linguistics and Language StudiesArts and Humanities11.2%
- Cultural and political discourse analysisSocial Sciences8.7%
- Discourse Analysis in Language StudiesArts and Humanities3.6%
- Linguistic and Sociocultural StudiesSocial Sciences3.1%
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationArts and Humanities2.5%
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
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
DOAJPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, OCLC
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
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.43OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 167 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 59 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 66 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 86 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 82 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 87 |
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 ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Country or region
- Germany
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISSN
- 2194-8305
- Electronic ISSN
- 2194-8313
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Pragmatica Sociocultural
How long does peer review take at Pragmatica Sociocultural?
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.
Which databases index Pragmatica Sociocultural?
The journal's website lists DOAJ; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Pragmatica Sociocultural open access, and what is the APC?
Pragmatica Sociocultural is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .