Discourse Processes

Aims & Scope

Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics.

The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.

The journal accepts original experimental or theoretical papers that substantially advance understanding of the structure and function of discourse.

Scholars working in the discourse areas from the perspective of psychology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse psychology, text linguistics, discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, education, philosophy of language, computer science, and related subareas are invited to contribute.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	2.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5900

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	291

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.878

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	71

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• An introduction to latent semantic analysis

  Citation: 2799

  Authors: Thomas K, Peter W., Darrell

• Transportation Into Narrative Worlds: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Perceived Realism

  Citation: 574

  Authors: Melanie C.

• Learning from texts: Effects of prior knowledge and text coherence

  Citation: 494

  Authors: Danielle S., Walter

• Gender Differences in Language Use: An Analysis of 14,000 Text Samples

  Citation: 460

  Authors: Matthew L., Carla J., Lori D., James W.

• Accessing the discourse representation during reading

  Citation: 407

  Authors: Jerome L., Edward J.

• Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse

  Citation: 386

  Authors: Martin, Lawrence L., Adam, Susie, Daniel A.

• The measurement of textual coherence with latent semantic analysis

  Citation: 383

  Authors: Peter W., Walter, Thomas K

• Toward a taxonomy of coherence relations

  Citation: 358

  Authors: Ted J. M., Wilbert P. M., Leo G. M.

• Practices and actions: Boundary cases of other‐initiated repair

  Citation: 358

  Authors: Emanuel A.

• SERT: Self-Explanation Reading Training

  Citation: 303

  Authors: Danielle S.

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