Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2005
80 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 80 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2004 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.24. The top three are Research on Language and Social Interaction, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Linguistic Inquiry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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 of Arts and Humanities (13)
80 ranked journals
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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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.12Q1 | 2.02 1.07 up from 2004 | 61 | 7% | — | ||
2Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.28Q1 | 3.29 2.07 down from 2004 | 55 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
3Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 7.42Q1 | 2.20 4.59 down from 2004 | 101 | 16% | — | ||
4Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.06Q1 | 3.03 0.91 up from 2004 | 66 | 16% | $3,090 | ||
5The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 6.04Q1 | 0.30 9.91 down from 2004 | 44 | 0% | $2,712 | ||
6Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 1.67 0.86 up from 2004 | 42 | 5% | $5,137 | ||
7Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 1.24no change | 52 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
8Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 1.73 0.78 up from 2004 | 145 | 2% | $3,800 | ||
9Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 3.45Q1 | 1.85 0.75 up from 2004 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of Germanic LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 0.38 0.05 up from 2004 | 42 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
11Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 1.38 0.41 up from 2004 | 176 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
12Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 1.18 0.07 up from 2004 | 43 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
13Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.95Q1 | 0.85 0.19 down from 2004 | 63 | 9% | $2,712 | ||
14LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 2.82Q1 | 1.87 1.40 up from 2004 | 402 | 5% | — | ||
15Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 0.58 0.20 down from 2004 | 56 | 8% | — | ||
16Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 1.16 0.36 down from 2004 | 65 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
17Catalan Journal of LinguisticsOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 2.53Q1 | 1.56 1.02 up from 2004 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 1.11 0.14 up from 2004 | 377 | 4% | $3,260 | ||
19SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 1.04 0.25 up from 2004 | 167 | 6% | $3,980 | ||
20IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 0.63 0.27 up from 2004 | 59 | 14% | $2,712 | ||
21LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q2 | 1.07 0.42 up from 2004 | 246 | 6% | $2,640 | ||
22Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.06Q2 | 0.79 0.14 down from 2004 | 97 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
23Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.88Q2 | 0.52 0.39 down from 2004 | 125 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
24Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q2 | 1.30 0.25 down from 2004 | 79 | 10% | $3,030 | ||
25LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.71Q2 | 0.96 0.50 down from 2004 | 113 | 19% | $0 listed | ||
26International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 1.63Q2 | 0.50 0.06 down from 2004 | 51 | 9% | $3,240 | ||
27Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJOAPublisher not listed | 1.63Q2 | 0.48 0.04 up from 2004 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
28Folia LinguisticaDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.43Q2 | 0.40 0.10 up from 2004 | 52 | 15% | $2,712 | ||
29Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic TheoryOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 1.40Q2 | 0.67 0.11 up from 2004 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
30Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 1.36Q2 | 0.36 0.73 down from 2004 | 32 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
31Studies in LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 0.46 0.24 up from 2004 | 128 | 2% | — | ||
32DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 0.22 0.13 up from 2004 | 68 | 4% | — | ||
33Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.72 0.05 up from 2004 | 78 | 4% | — | ||
34Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 0.49 0.15 up from 2004 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
35ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.15Q2 | 0.64 0.22 down from 2004 | 32 | 8% | $0 listed | ||
36Australian Review of Applied LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Australia | 1.14Q2 | 0.31 0.17 down from 2004 | 52 | 7% | — | ||
37CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.67 0.41 up from 2004 | 131 | 9% | — | ||
38Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 0.96 0.67 up from 2004 | 36 | 7% | $2,990 | ||
39Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 0.40 0.37 up from 2004 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
40Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized CommunicationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 0.52 0.01 down from 2004 | 64 | 4% | — | ||
41International Journal of LexicographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 0.35 0.12 down from 2004 | 137 | 4% | $4,942 | ||
42The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 0.29 0.22 down from 2004 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
43Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.85Q3 | 0.25 0.12 up from 2004 | 67 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
44Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.85Q3 | 0.34 0.08 up from 2004 | 38 | 15% | $0 listed | ||
45EUROSLA YearbookJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.82Q3 | 0.48 0.17 up from 2004 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
46Language SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.34 0.03 down from 2004 | 112 | 9% | $2,510 | ||
47Functions of LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.71Q3 | 0.36 0.24 up from 2004 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
48NordlydOASeptentrio Academic Publishing · Norway | 0.71Q3 | 0.30no 2004 value | 53 | 100% | — | ||
49Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.20 1.07 down from 2004 | 32 | 21% | — | ||
50Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics SocietyOABerkeley Linguistics Society · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.41 0.10 up from 2004 | 148 | 95% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics80
- Philosophy64
- Archeology35
- Literature and Literary Theory31
- History and Philosophy of Science21
- Music15
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts14
- Conservation12
- History8
- Museology7
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
44 additional Language and Linguistics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 80
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,822 +31.2% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.891 -6.5% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 80 | 85 | 85 | 90 | 91 | 95 | 101 | 107 | 114 | 123 | 127 | 135 | 141 | 150 | 150 | 153 | 154 | 160 | 164 | 161 | 166 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 23,431 | 24,873 | 27,295 | 30,722 | 33,569 | 35,822 | 37,701 | 40,210 | 44,255 | 48,419 | 53,070 | 57,589 | 61,839 | 64,341 | 65,295 | 65,985 | 69,100 | 69,414 | 70,603 | 71,710 | 76,067 | 80,757 | 83,795 | 84,882 | 86,269 | 89,829 | |
| Median OJR | 0.85 | 0.893 | 0.95 | 0.91 | 1.004 | 0.891 | 1.24 | 1.11 | 1.33 | 1.59 | 1.62 | 1.498 | 1.43 | 1.34 | 1.69 | 1.29 | 1.503 | 1.31 | 1.14 | 1.20 | 1.12 | 1.017 | 1.10 | 1.04 | 0.92 | 1.019 |
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.