Topics in Linguistics

Topics in Linguistics is published by Sciendo and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, together about 37.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Topics in Linguistics is a double-blind, peer-reviewed international scientific journal issued twice a year by the Department of English and American Studies, the Faculty of Arts, at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. The editorial policies and ethics statement of the editorial board can be accessed here. Plagiarism Policy The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process. The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. The journal aims to foster interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural approaches to language research. Topics in Linguistics seeks to publish high-quality, original papers which adopt diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives in exploring a wide range of current issues in linguistic studies. Although papers on world languages are considered, we especially encourage submissions dealing with the majority and minority languages spoken in Europe. Subject areas of study include, but are not limited to: general linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) interfaces with general linguistics (neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics) cognitive linguistics comparative linguistics corpus linguistics applied linguistics stylistics (critical) discourse analysis intercultural communication Topics in Linguistics is published in English. Authors are requested to submit their papers (doc. format) anonymously. The authors will receive an automatic confirmation email and are notified within one month of submission of the results of the initial screening of their manuscript.From Volume 13, 2014 until Volume 24, 2023, Topics in Linguistics has been published by De Gruyter Open (later Sciendo). Starting with Volume 25, the journal is being published by Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Since 2016 Topics in Linguistics has been an electronic-only journal. Topics in Linguistics is covered by the following services: Baidu Scholar Cabell's Journalytics CEEAS (Central &

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Editor-in-chief Štefan BeňušPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Slovakia 7, Czechia 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, J-Gate, Naver, OCLC, Crossref, Semantic Scholar

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.64LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

13OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

13LetPub · 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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 26 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 26 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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.

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

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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

Sciendo

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

1337-7590

Electronic ISSN

2729-8183

Latest issue on the website

Volume 27, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ