Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2008
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 90 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.22 on 2007 to 1.33, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.70. The top three are Natural Language Semantics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and Linguistic Inquiry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
90 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.73Q1 | 2.39 0.14 up from 2007 | 32 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
2Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.72Q1 | 1.41 0.59 down from 2007 | 47 | 21% | — | ||
3Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 6.58Q1 | 2.07 0.88 down from 2007 | 107 | 13% | — | ||
4Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 1.95 0.09 down from 2007 | 110 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
5Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 0.53no change | 31 | 8% | — | ||
6Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 5.60Q1 | 0.78 2.61 down from 2007 | 34 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
7Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.51Q1 | 2.16 0.86 down from 2007 | 67 | 12% | $3,090 | ||
8Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.50Q1 | 2.58 2.22 down from 2007 | 64 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
9Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.99Q1 | 1.09 0.42 down from 2007 | 226 | 5% | $3,800 | ||
10International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 4.61Q1 | 1.11 0.15 down from 2007 | 101 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
11Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.50Q1 | 1.82 0.12 down from 2007 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
12Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 4.22Q1 | 1.88 0.34 up from 2007 | 62 | 32% | $0 listed | ||
13Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 1.75 0.15 up from 2007 | 247 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
14Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 1.29 0.19 up from 2007 | 60 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
15Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.26Q1 | 1.00 0.43 up from 2007 | 91 | 11% | $2,712 | ||
16LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.22Q1 | 1.83 0.79 up from 2007 | 226 | 9% | — | ||
17Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 0.67 0.33 down from 2007 | 75 | 4% | $3,030 | ||
18Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 0.31 0.41 down from 2007 | 48 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
19IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.97Q1 | 1.56 0.24 up from 2007 | 50 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
20Theoretical LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.81Q1 | 1.38 0.08 up from 2007 | 71 | 8% | $0 listed | ||
21Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 1.48 0.14 up from 2007 | 48 | 9% | $5,137 | ||
22Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 1.39 0.35 up from 2007 | 82 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
23SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 0.33 0.18 down from 2007 | 339 | 2% | $3,980 | ||
24LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.54Q2 | 0.83 0.32 down from 2007 | 108 | 25% | $0 listed | ||
25Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.51Q2 | 1.71 0.88 up from 2007 | 37 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
26Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.39Q2 | 1.60 0.55 up from 2007 | 61 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
27Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic TheoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.34Q2 | 0.73 0.18 down from 2007 | 33 | 7% | $0 listed | ||
28CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.13Q2 | 0.88 0.75 down from 2007 | 100 | 3% | — | ||
29The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.11Q2 | 1.57 0.67 down from 2007 | 63 | 10% | $2,712 | ||
30Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q2 | 1.32 0.37 up from 2007 | 381 | 4% | $3,260 | ||
31Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.01Q2 | 0.67 0.20 down from 2007 | 69 | 13% | $2,712 | ||
32The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.96Q2 | 0.35 0.40 down from 2007 | 44 | 14% | — | ||
33Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.90Q2 | 1.05 0.40 down from 2007 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
34NordlydOASeptentrio Academic Publishing · Norway | 1.88Q2 | 0.44 1.24 down from 2007 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
35LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q2 | 0.69 0.05 down from 2007 | 261 | 7% | $2,640 | ||
36ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.81Q2 | 0.50 0.15 down from 2007 | 30 | 23% | $0 listed | ||
37Journal of French Language StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 0.67 0.50 up from 2007 | 76 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
38International Journal of LexicographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.32 0.17 up from 2007 | 121 | 3% | $4,942 | ||
39Spanish in ContextJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.59Q2 | 0.38 0.13 up from 2007 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
40Journal of Portuguese LinguisticsOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 1.08 0.80 up from 2007 | 31 | 100% | $551 | ||
41DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 0.43 0.15 up from 2007 | 63 | 3% | — | ||
42Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 0.50 0.17 up from 2007 | 64 | 7% | — | ||
43Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJOAPublisher not listed | 1.50Q2 | 0.59 0.31 up from 2007 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
44Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 1.40Q2 | 0.67 0.81 down from 2007 | 34 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
45Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 1.34Q2 | 0.59 0.22 up from 2007 | 203 | 3% | $3,570 | ||
46Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.31Q3 | 0.44 0.14 down from 2007 | 70 | 2% | — | ||
47Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized CommunicationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.21Q3 | 0.32 0.04 down from 2007 | 59 | 14% | — | ||
48Functions of LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.21Q3 | 0.39 0.27 up from 2007 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
49Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic TheoryOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 1.21Q3 | 0.82 0.15 up from 2007 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
50Language SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q3 | 0.64 0.28 up from 2007 | 131 | 0% | $2,510 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics90
- Philosophy68
- Archeology42
- Literature and Literary Theory37
- History and Philosophy of Science23
- Music20
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts16
- Conservation14
- Museology10
- History8
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
52 additional Language and Linguistics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,255 +23.5% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.33 +49.0% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.