Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2008
37 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Literature and Literary Theory has 37 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR fell 0.16 on 2007 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.19. The top three are Journal of Second Language Writing, Language and Education, and Written Communication.
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)
37 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 8.22Q1 | 2.06 1.13 up from 2007 | 67 | 3% | $3,830 | ||
2Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 1.37 0.68 up from 2007 | 102 | 8% | — | ||
3Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 0.97 0.11 up from 2007 | 50 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
4English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 3.70Q1 | 0.84 0.09 down from 2007 | 107 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 0.87 0.31 up from 2007 | 85 | 7% | $3,730 | ||
6Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 1.58 0.76 up from 2007 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
7Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 1.02 0.35 up from 2007 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
8ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 0.69no change | 259 | 10% | $5,481 | ||
9English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 2.39Q1 | 0.62 0.30 up from 2007 | 84 | 8% | — | ||
10Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 2.19Q1 | 0.80 0.30 up from 2007 | 92 | 9% | — | ||
11College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.98Q2 | 0.37 0.01 down from 2007 | 143 | 3% | — | ||
12Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q2 | 1.11 0.43 up from 2007 | 60 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
13The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.81Q2 | 0.73 0.53 up from 2007 | 32 | 6% | $3,190 | ||
14Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.48Q2 | 0.56 0.09 down from 2007 | 97 | 4% | — | ||
15LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 0.45 0.31 down from 2007 | 89 | 9% | $3,470 | ||
16Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.44 0.21 down from 2007 | 68 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
17Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.18Q2 | 0.34 0.18 up from 2007 | 220 | 0% | — | ||
18Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.32 0.26 down from 2007 | 220 | 0% | $3,860 | ||
19Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.21 0.04 down from 2007 | 85 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
20HispaniaAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese · United States | 0.92Q3 | 0.16 0.01 down from 2007 | 471 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Folklore ResearchIndiana University Press · United States | 0.88Q3 | 0.20 0.12 up from 2007 | 85 | 0% | — | ||
22Minnesota ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 0.86Q3 | 0.23 0.05 up from 2007 | 165 | 0% | — | ||
23DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.79Q3 | 0.36 0.04 up from 2007 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
24English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.30 0.13 down from 2007 | 76 | 8% | — | ||
25New Review of Children s Literature and LibrarianshipTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q3 | 0.18 0.04 up from 2007 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
26Auto/BiographyUnited Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.41 0.20 down from 2007 | 31 | — | — | ||
27TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 0.68Q3 | 0.28 0.01 up from 2007 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
28Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas ExtranjerasOARovira i Virgili University · Spain | 0.62Q3 | 0.40 0.29 up from 2007 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
29UbiquityOAAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.61Q4 | 0.43 0.12 down from 2007 | 191 | 5% | — | ||
30Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.51Q4 | 0.20 0.17 up from 2007 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
31Linguagem em (Dis)cursoOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil | 0.23Q4 | 0.13 0.13 up from 2007 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
32Linguistics and the Human SciencesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.10 0.10 up from 2007 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
33ACR North American AdvancesSheridan Books | 0.16Q4 | 0.07 0.05 down from 2007 | 622 | 0% | — | ||
34Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil | 0.09Q4 | 0.10 0.03 up from 2007 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
35The Missouri reviewUniversity of Missouri · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2007 | 319 | 0% | — | ||
36Opticon1826UCL Press · United Kingdom | 0.06Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2007 | 40 | 92% | — | ||
37Digital Studies / Le champ numériqueOAOpen Library of Humanities · Canada | 0.05Q4 | 0.00no change | 33 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Literature and Literary Theory 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.
14 additional Literature and Literary Theory 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
- 37
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,031 +21.0% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.94 -7.3% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 60 | 64 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 72 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,152 | 41,293 | 44,360 | 47,693 | 50,568 | 53,724 | 56,806 | 60,437 | 65,031 | 69,362 | 74,882 | 79,853 | 84,459 | 87,431 | 89,177 | 91,543 | 94,470 | 97,026 | 99,068 | 101,727 | 103,853 | 106,881 | 106,516 | 103,525 | 100,705 | 102,959 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.91 | 1.05 | 0.99 | 1.12 | 1.014 | 1.18 | 1.10 | 0.94 | 0.901 | 1.26 | 1.31 | 1.49 | 1.303 | 1.299 | 1.335 | 1.11 | 1.339 | 1.35 | 1.24 | 1.51 | 1.010 | 1.02 | 0.93 | 0.903 | 0.89 |
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.