Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Field ranking · 2010
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2010
345 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 345 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.80. The top three are Transactions of the Philological Society, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Syntax.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 16.40Q1 | 4.59 1.62 up from 2009 | 48 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
2Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 13.07Q1 | 3.26 0.49 up from 2009 | 67 | 0% | $3,830 | ||
3SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 9.60Q1 | 1.54 0.32 down from 2009 | 34 | 26% | $3,240 | ||
4LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 8.81Q1 | 3.31 1.42 up from 2009 | 141 | 13% | — | ||
5Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.48Q1 | 1.98 2.21 down from 2009 | 69 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
6Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 7.76Q1 | 3.70 0.24 down from 2009 | 104 | 14% | — | ||
7Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.28Q1 | 2.52 0.92 up from 2009 | 35 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
8Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 6.93Q1 | 1.28 0.06 down from 2009 | 40 | 7% | $0 listed | ||
9Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.80Q1 | 2.70 1.01 up from 2009 | 51 | 32% | — | ||
10Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.43Q1 | 1.79 1.30 down from 2009 | 62 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
11Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 3.20 0.33 down from 2009 | 74 | 15% | — | ||
12Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 2.23 0.44 up from 2009 | 49 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
13Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.51Q1 | 2.06 0.19 up from 2009 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
14Journal of Material CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 1.53 0.33 up from 2009 | 50 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
15IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.40Q1 | 1.32 0.20 up from 2009 | 50 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
16Translation StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 1.15 0.80 up from 2009 | 33 | 8% | — | ||
17Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 4.25Q1 | 1.56 0.25 up from 2009 | 68 | 6% | $0 listed | ||
18Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 0.79 0.28 up from 2009 | 62 | 16% | — | ||
19Journal für BetriebswirtschaftSpringer Nature · Germany | 4.22Q1 | 2.35 0.98 up from 2009 | 39 | 14% | — | ||
20Studies in Art EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.11Q1 | 1.14 0.30 up from 2009 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
21International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 4.05Q1 | 0.94 0.13 down from 2009 | 96 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
22Lingvisticae InvestigationesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 0.23 0.94 down from 2009 | 62 | 5% | — | ||
23Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 3.96Q1 | 1.02 0.11 down from 2009 | 366 | 3% | $3,800 | ||
24Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 2.23 0.16 up from 2009 | 67 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
25Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 3.81Q1 | 1.73 0.56 up from 2009 | 52 | 20% | $2,900 | ||
26English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 3.51Q1 | 1.11 0.81 down from 2009 | 101 | 12% | $3,590 | ||
27Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 1.12 0.49 down from 2009 | 101 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
28Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 1.42 0.60 up from 2009 | 35 | 8% | $3,947 | ||
29The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 3.31Q1 | 0.98 0.53 down from 2009 | 158 | 11% | — | ||
30Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.20 0.20 down from 2009 | 64 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
31Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 1.06 0.37 up from 2009 | 144 | 9% | — | ||
32DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 0.74 0.42 up from 2009 | 74 | 6% | — | ||
33Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 0.92 0.18 up from 2009 | 154 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
34Art EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.13Q1 | 0.76 0.05 down from 2009 | 150 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 1.37 0.24 up from 2009 | 103 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
36SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 0.65 0.18 up from 2009 | 516 | 2% | $3,980 | ||
37Public ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 0.80 0.13 up from 2009 | 84 | 20% | — | ||
38Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 3.06Q1 | 1.10 0.24 up from 2009 | 55 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
39Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 1.36 0.18 up from 2009 | 74 | 10% | $3,030 | ||
40LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 1.51 0.31 up from 2009 | 332 | 14% | $2,640 | ||
41LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.87Q1 | 0.91 0.07 up from 2009 | 113 | 16% | $0 listed | ||
42Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.81 0.13 up from 2009 | 66 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
43Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.52 0.81 down from 2009 | 41 | 10% | $5,137 | ||
44The American ArchivistSociety of American Archivists · United States | 2.73Q1 | 0.63 0.14 up from 2009 | 64 | 10% | — | ||
45Acta Linguistica HungaricaOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 2.73Q1 | 1.39 0.68 down from 2009 | 53 | 80% | — | ||
46Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 0.36 0.72 down from 2009 | 74 | 6% | — | ||
47Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 1.16 0.26 down from 2009 | 102 | 10% | $3,730 | ||
48Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.69Q1 | 1.25 0.42 down from 2009 | 240 | 6% | $3,380 | ||
49ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 0.92 0.10 up from 2009 | 247 | 7% | $5,481 | ||
50Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.16 0.39 up from 2009 | 76 | 16% | — |
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
156 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 345
- Window papers (baseline)
- 406,003 +22.4% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.885 +12.2% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.