Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 960
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Anthropology 5(Q1)
Communication 11(Q1)
Languages 11(Q1)

Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
150 manuscripts
Articles published last year
30 articles
% accepted last year
20% accepted
Immediately rejected last year
75% imm. rejected
Open access status
no
Two-year impact factor
0.85

Aims and Scope

Discourse Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law.

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
2.7 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
2.8 months
Decision time immediate rejection
n/a
Overall rating manuscript handling
3.3 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
1.3 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
4.0 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
1.3 reports
Quality of review reports
4.3 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 24.1 weeks. Overall rating: 4 (very good). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
The submission and review process were very smooth. Unfortunately, due to problems at the production department of the publisher, there was some delay to publish the paper on OnlineFirst.