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Language Policy

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

NetherlandsLinguistics and Language (Q1); Sociology and Political Science (Q1)ISSN-matched source record
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Q1Ranking
3.7Impact Factor (2025)
49H-index (SCImago 2025)
0.945SJR (2025)
2002-2026Coverage

About Language Policy

Language Policy is a scholarly journal published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.945 and H-index of 49.

Coverage: 2002-2026. Research categories: Linguistics and Language (Q1); Sociology and Political Science (Q1).

Verified field sources

  • Journal Impact Factor: 3.7 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.
  • Impact Factor year: 2025 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.
  • Editor(s): David Cassels Johnson PhD; M. Y. (Angel) Lin PhD (Editors-in-Chief) — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.

Source-backed journal facts

ISSN(s)1568-4555, 1573-1863
ISSN-L1568-4555
Source typeJournal
Publisher / hosting organisationSpringer Science+Business Media
Publisher country codeNL
Fully open access (OpenAlex)Not marked as fully open access; hybrid options may exist
DOAJ flag (OpenAlex)Not listed in OpenAlex metadata; this is not a direct DOAJ check
Works recorded in OpenAlex1,090
Citations recorded in OpenAlex18,680
OpenAlex H-index64
Years represented in OpenAlex1997–2026 (not the founding or closing dates)

Topics in published research

Multilingual Education and Policy; Second Language Learning and Teaching; Linguistic Variation and Morphology; EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning; Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

OpenAlex classifies topics from published works. These topics are not the publisher’s official aims and scope.

Reported open-access list prices

3,090.00 USD; 2,490.00 EUR; 2,190.00 GBP

APC list prices reported by OpenAlex, which obtains this information from DOAJ. Confirm current charges, taxes, waivers and eligibility with the publisher; this is not a fee quotation.

Source: OpenAlex source record. Retrieved 2026-10-03. Source record updated 2026-10-02. OpenAlex metrics are different from SCImago metrics and the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

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