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Q1Lingua
About Lingua
Lingua is a scholarly journal published by Elsevier B.V.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.563 and H-index of 79.
Coverage: 1949, 1952, 1954-1957, 1959, 1961-2026. Research categories: Linguistics and Language (Q1).
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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation; Linguistic Variation and Morphology; Phonetics and Phonology Research; Natural Language Processing Techniques; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.
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