Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2003
272 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 272 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Linguistic Inquiry, The Journal of Philosophy, and Research on Language and Social Interaction.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Arts and Humanities (13)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 7.53Q1 | 2.77 0.14 up from 2002 | 99 | 8% | — | ||
2The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 6.30Q1 | 2.28 0.50 up from 2002 | 191 | 6% | — | ||
3Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.13Q1 | 1.22 0.16 up from 2002 | 52 | 7% | — | ||
4Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 5.23Q1 | 1.53 0.66 up from 2002 | 55 | 0% | $3,830 | ||
5Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.43Q1 | 1.57 0.14 down from 2002 | 68 | 3% | $3,090 | ||
6Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 1.56 0.01 down from 2002 | 63 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
7Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 4.17Q1 | 0.57 0.45 down from 2002 | 67 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
8Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 0.69 0.42 down from 2002 | 41 | 0% | $5,137 | ||
9Journal of Material CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 0.69 0.27 down from 2002 | 52 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
10Language SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 0.38 0.90 down from 2002 | 100 | 4% | $2,510 | ||
11The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 3.21Q1 | 1.52 0.58 up from 2002 | 477 | 6% | — | ||
12English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 3.16Q1 | 1.30 0.20 up from 2002 | 112 | 10% | $3,590 | ||
13The British Journal for the Philosophy of ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 3.05Q1 | 2.17 0.17 up from 2002 | 89 | 3% | — | ||
14SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 1.53 0.70 up from 2002 | 31 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
15Theoretical LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.94Q1 | 0.33 0.03 down from 2002 | 52 | 5% | $0 listed | ||
16Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 1.63 1.12 up from 2002 | 151 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
17College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 2.78Q1 | 0.82 0.09 up from 2002 | 225 | 0% | — | ||
18Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 0.48 0.07 down from 2002 | 55 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
19Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 0.79 0.56 up from 2002 | 49 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
20French Politics Culture & SocietyBerghahn Books · United States | 2.50Q1 | 0.59 0.44 up from 2002 | 85 | 11% | — | ||
21The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.47Q1 | 1.25 0.74 up from 2002 | 51 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
22Journal of Cultural EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 0.77 0.07 up from 2002 | 72 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
23Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 0.85 0.17 up from 2002 | 56 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 0.99 0.25 up from 2002 | 306 | 8% | $3,260 | ||
25Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 0.57 0.01 up from 2002 | 51 | 3% | — | ||
26Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 0.82 0.08 down from 2002 | 465 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
27LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 0.77 0.36 up from 2002 | 130 | 9% | $0 listed | ||
28ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.11Q1 | 1.24 0.53 up from 2002 | 34 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
29The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 0.55 0.34 down from 2002 | 133 | 8% | $4,204 | ||
30LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 0.98 0.21 down from 2002 | 136 | 8% | $2,640 | ||
30Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 0.55 0.05 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
32Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 0.73 0.22 down from 2002 | 75 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
33Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 1.95Q1 | 0.38 0.29 down from 2002 | 74 | 3% | — | ||
34Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.22 0.53 up from 2002 | 47 | 0% | $3,947 | ||
35Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 1.94Q1 | 0.70 0.29 down from 2002 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
36NoûsWiley · United States | 1.91Q1 | 0.60 0.72 down from 2002 | 215 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
37The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.90Q1 | 0.40 0.07 up from 2002 | 30 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
38OsirisUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.90Q1 | 0.56 0.18 up from 2002 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
39Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 0.35 0.48 down from 2002 | 81 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
40Text and Performance QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.89Q1 | 0.65 0.38 up from 2002 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
41Philosophy of ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.40 0.25 up from 2002 | 257 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
42Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 1.80Q1 | 0.59 0.45 up from 2002 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
43Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part AElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 0.51 0.22 up from 2002 | 109 | 5% | $2,930 | ||
44Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 0.36no change | 60 | 3% | — | ||
45Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 1.77Q1 | 0.71 0.35 up from 2002 | 46 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
46Studies in Art EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.76Q1 | 0.30 0.01 up from 2002 | 117 | 0% | — | ||
47The American ArchivistSociety of American Archivists · United States | 1.74Q1 | 0.20 0.20 down from 2002 | 67 | 35% | — | ||
48Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 1.73Q1 | 0.51 0.52 down from 2002 | 170 | 2% | $3,800 | ||
49SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 0.55 0.12 down from 2002 | 156 | 14% | $3,980 | ||
50Markup Languages Theory and PracticeUnited States | 1.68Q1 | 0.22 1.00 down from 2002 | 80 | — | — |
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
115 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 272
- Window papers (baseline)
- 312,227 +41.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.66 +15.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 240 | 255 | 265 | 272 | 275 | 288 | 310 | 316 | 329 | 335 | 345 | 360 | 377 | 403 | 422 | 443 | 460 | 472 | 497 | 507 | 513 | 518 | 535 | 537 | 539 | 536 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 221,321 | 279,847 | 294,456 | 312,227 | 279,317 | 298,100 | 312,834 | 331,747 | 353,197 | 379,622 | 406,003 | 431,868 | 450,451 | 464,727 | 474,562 | 488,100 | 509,856 | 524,369 | 538,902 | 557,204 | 570,365 | 583,919 | 578,750 | 571,888 | 560,239 | 567,751 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.66 | 0.64 | 0.71 | 0.794 | 0.789 | 0.8877 | 0.893 | 0.885 | 0.8879 | 0.90 | 0.939 | 0.92 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.9408 | 1.01 | 0.9405 | 0.88 | 0.82 | 0.835 | 0.81 | 0.77 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 5.7% | 196 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.249 per 1,000 | 200 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.5% | 491 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 52.7% | 536 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 181 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 15.7% | 453 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 536 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.78 | 532 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 64.8% | 536 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 60.7% | 534 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.