Journal profile · COMMUNICATION
Quarterly Journal of Speech
ISSN 0033-5630 · eISSN 1479-5779 · Taylor & Francis
Quarterly Journal of Speech: CAS Zone 1 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 1.33; subscription journal; median 274 days to acceptance (44 articles, last 24 months); 47 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Quarterly Journal of Speech is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, together about 36.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. QJS publishes original scholarship and book reviews that take a rhetorical approach to diverse texts, discourses, and cultural practices through which public beliefs, norms, identities, institutions, affects, and actions are constituted, empowered, enacted, and circulated. Rhetorical scholarship traverses and mobilizes many different intellectual, archival, disciplinary, and political vectors, traditions, and methods, and QJS seeks to honor and engage such differences. Accordingly, QJS welcomes the full array of scholarship produced under rhetoric’s broad purview, including work that advances and enriches longstanding traditions in rhetorical theory and criticism, as well as research and writing that maps new frontiers. For more details about how to submit your research to QJS , please review our Instructions for Authors. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees. Forum submissions are reviewed by the journal editor (and forum editor if applicable for that forum), not by double anonymized peer review as with research articles. Read full aims and scope
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rhetoric and Communication StudiesArts and Humanities16.7%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering10.5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.7%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science9.3%
- Discourse Analysis in Language StudiesArts and Humanities5.2%
- American Constitutional Law and PoliticsSocial Sciences3.6%
- Academic Writing and PublishingArts and Humanities3.3%
- Language, Metaphor, and CognitionPsychology3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 3 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Literature Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 1.33LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.74LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.95LetPub ·
- h-index
- 95OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,095OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.16OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.85%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 14LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 6,620 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 47 | 7 | 25 |
| 2024 | 62 | 9 | 144 |
| 2023 | 34 | 3 | 101 |
| 2022 | 59 | 2 | 245 |
| 2021 | 46 | 1 | 385 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
274 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 172 days – 408 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 22 days (44 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 298 days
- Sample
- 44 articles with submission and acceptance dates (98 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
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Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: research articles undergo rigorous peer review, including editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees. Model summary
Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0033-5630
- Electronic ISSN
- 1479-5779
- Society / sponsor
- National Communication Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 112, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Quarterly Journal of Speech
What CAS zone is Quarterly Journal of Speech in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Quarterly Journal of Speech is in Zone 1 of Literature, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Communication; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Quarterly Journal of Speech?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.33; CiteScore 1.8, h-index 95.
How long does peer review take at Quarterly Journal of Speech?
Based on the dates recorded on 44 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 274 days (interquartile range 172–408 days). 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 Quarterly Journal of Speech?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Quarterly Journal of Speech is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Quarterly Journal of Speech open access, and what is the APC?
Quarterly Journal of Speech is a subscription 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .