Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2011
101 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 101 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2010 to 1.50, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.62. The top three are Journal of Politeness Research, Natural Language Semantics, and Linguistic Inquiry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
101 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 8.11Q1 | 1.42 0.14 up from 2010 | 40 | 6% | $0 listed | ||
2Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.91Q1 | 2.65 0.13 up from 2010 | 36 | 24% | $3,090 | ||
3Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 6.59Q1 | 2.90 0.81 down from 2010 | 102 | 24% | — | ||
4Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.43Q1 | 1.53 1.17 down from 2010 | 50 | 40% | — | ||
5Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 6.07Q1 | 2.63 0.57 up from 2010 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
6Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.20Q1 | 3.64 0.43 up from 2010 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
7Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 1.80 0.43 down from 2010 | 80 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
8SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 1.60 0.06 up from 2010 | 38 | 22% | $3,240 | ||
9LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 4.54Q1 | 2.07 1.25 down from 2010 | 135 | 12% | — | ||
10Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.48Q1 | 1.29 0.68 down from 2010 | 75 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
11Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2010 | 144 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
12IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.19Q1 | 2.09 0.77 up from 2010 | 50 | 9% | $2,712 | ||
13Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 1.42 0.30 up from 2010 | 96 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
14Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.01Q1 | 1.23 0.21 up from 2010 | 362 | 5% | $3,800 | ||
15Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 2.05 0.24 up from 2010 | 90 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
16Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.56Q1 | 0.88 0.15 up from 2010 | 110 | 2% | $2,712 | ||
17Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.43Q1 | 1.53 0.26 down from 2010 | 56 | 32% | $3,090 | ||
18Translation StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 0.40 0.75 down from 2010 | 48 | 14% | — | ||
19SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 0.81 0.15 up from 2010 | 540 | 2% | $3,980 | ||
20Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 2.03 0.51 up from 2010 | 46 | 9% | $5,137 | ||
21Folia LinguisticaDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.95Q1 | 0.58 0.05 down from 2010 | 57 | 13% | $2,712 | ||
22International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 2.73Q1 | 0.87 0.07 down from 2010 | 75 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
23Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 2.72Q1 | 0.93 0.12 up from 2010 | 155 | 6% | $3,570 | ||
24CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 1.25 0.05 down from 2010 | 115 | 11% | — | ||
25Linguistic DiscoveryOADartmouth College Library · United States | 2.65Q1 | 1.30 0.73 up from 2010 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 1.04no change | 627 | 12% | $3,260 | ||
27Theoretical LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.54Q2 | 0.29 0.84 down from 2010 | 56 | 35% | $0 listed | ||
28Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.42Q2 | 1.51 0.24 up from 2010 | 72 | 6% | $2,712 | ||
29International Journal of LexicographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.25Q2 | 0.66 0.30 up from 2010 | 126 | 9% | $4,942 | ||
30Linguistische Berichte (LB)Germany | 2.25Q2 | 0.21 0.85 down from 2010 | 84 | 3% | — | ||
31DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.24Q2 | 0.71 0.03 down from 2010 | 81 | 9% | — | ||
32ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.23Q2 | 0.71 0.44 down from 2010 | 31 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
33MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.20Q2 | 0.90 0.34 up from 2010 | 60 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
34Acta Linguistica HungaricaOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 2.20Q2 | 0.15 1.24 down from 2010 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
35Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q2 | 0.80 0.07 up from 2010 | 79 | 12% | — | ||
36Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.14Q2 | 1.23 0.14 down from 2010 | 103 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
37Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 2.13Q2 | 1.17 0.56 down from 2010 | 52 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
38Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.09Q2 | 0.79 3.80 down from 2010 | 52 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
39LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.02Q2 | 1.04 0.13 up from 2010 | 124 | 24% | $0 listed | ||
40WORD StructureEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom | 2.01Q2 | 0.61 0.77 down from 2010 | 30 | 8% | — | ||
41Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.98Q2 | 1.06 0.50 down from 2010 | 45 | 16% | $0 listed | ||
42Acta Linguistica HafniensiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.95Q2 | 0.76 0.30 up from 2010 | 38 | 44% | — | ||
43Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.87Q2 | 1.14 0.78 up from 2010 | 72 | 11% | — | ||
44LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q2 | 1.13 0.39 down from 2010 | 344 | 8% | $2,640 | ||
45Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 0.68 0.69 down from 2010 | 82 | 12% | $3,030 | ||
46Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 0.64 0.17 down from 2010 | 234 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
47The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.72Q2 | 0.89 0.15 up from 2010 | 51 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
48Functions of LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 0.90 0.57 up from 2010 | 57 | 5% | — | ||
49The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.40 0.16 down from 2010 | 54 | 10% | — | ||
50Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 0.86 0.17 up from 2010 | 43 | 5% | $2,990 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics101
- Philosophy69
- Archeology47
- Literature and Literary Theory41
- History and Philosophy of Science26
- Music22
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts16
- Conservation14
- Museology14
- History9
- Religious studies1
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
66 additional Language and Linguistics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 101
- Window papers (baseline)
- 57,589 +30.1% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.498 +12.8% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.