Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2012
377 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 377 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.99. The top three are Linguistic Discovery, Syntax, and Linguistic Inquiry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Linguistic DiscoveryOADartmouth College Library · United States | 17.14Q1 | 11.85 10.55 up from 2011 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
2SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 9.74Q1 | 4.13 2.53 up from 2011 | 43 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
3Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 9.47Q1 | 3.64 0.75 up from 2011 | 99 | 24% | — | ||
4Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.20Q1 | 3.22 2.43 up from 2011 | 55 | 28% | $2,900 | ||
5Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 8.17Q1 | 2.72 0.93 up from 2011 | 67 | 6% | $3,830 | ||
6LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 7.78Q1 | 2.45 0.39 up from 2011 | 131 | 20% | — | ||
7Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.72Q1 | 2.10 0.55 down from 2011 | 39 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
8Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.30Q1 | 3.03 1.27 up from 2011 | 48 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
9English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 7.08Q1 | 1.94 0.34 up from 2011 | 107 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
10Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.53Q1 | 2.97 1.44 up from 2011 | 55 | 25% | — | ||
11MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.50Q1 | 4.46 3.56 up from 2011 | 56 | 26% | $3,090 | ||
12Catalan Journal of LinguisticsOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 6.35Q1 | 2.00 1.36 up from 2011 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
13Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.18Q1 | 3.60 2.30 up from 2011 | 89 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
14Journal of Material CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 1.09 0.51 down from 2011 | 66 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
15Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.91Q1 | 3.04 1.24 up from 2011 | 78 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
16Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 3.25 1.22 up from 2011 | 46 | 4% | $5,137 | ||
17Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 5.74Q1 | 2.23 0.40 down from 2011 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
18Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 5.63Q1 | 1.16 0.10 up from 2011 | 73 | 17% | $0 listed | ||
19Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 1.68 0.45 up from 2011 | 104 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
20Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 2.94 0.89 up from 2011 | 91 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
21Folia LinguisticaDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.96Q1 | 0.47 0.11 down from 2011 | 53 | 28% | $2,712 | ||
22Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 4.79Q1 | 1.50 0.08 up from 2011 | 37 | 11% | $0 listed | ||
23IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.65Q1 | 1.94 0.15 down from 2011 | 49 | 19% | $2,712 | ||
24Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.49Q1 | 1.23no change | 372 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
25Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 4.40Q1 | 1.00 0.17 down from 2011 | 34 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
26Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.36Q1 | 1.51 0.56 up from 2011 | 66 | 5% | — | ||
27Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.35Q1 | 0.24 0.13 down from 2011 | 54 | 25% | — | ||
28Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 4.34Q1 | 0.98 0.04 down from 2011 | 79 | 4% | — | ||
29Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 2.06 1.58 down from 2011 | 95 | 7% | — | ||
30ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 1.32 0.35 up from 2011 | 260 | 7% | $5,481 | ||
31Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 1.28 0.25 up from 2011 | 156 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
32Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.88Q1 | 1.24 0.27 down from 2011 | 70 | 17% | $2,712 | ||
33SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 0.87 0.06 up from 2011 | 582 | 2% | $3,980 | ||
34EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 1.18 0.44 up from 2011 | 63 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
35Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 1.86 0.33 up from 2011 | 54 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
36Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 1.63 0.27 up from 2011 | 104 | 5% | $3,730 | ||
37Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 1.29 0.43 up from 2011 | 45 | 8% | $2,990 | ||
38Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 1.69 0.28 up from 2011 | 103 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
39Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 3.31Q1 | 1.33 0.40 up from 2011 | 141 | 7% | $3,570 | ||
40Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 3.27Q1 | 0.86 0.24 up from 2011 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.26Q1 | 1.84 0.67 up from 2011 | 53 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
42Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 0.71 0.64 down from 2011 | 132 | 13% | — | ||
43LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.12Q1 | 1.88 0.83 up from 2011 | 128 | 19% | $0 listed | ||
44Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 1.63 0.59 up from 2011 | 603 | 11% | $3,260 | ||
45Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 3.09Q1 | 1.46 0.53 up from 2011 | 97 | 2% | $3,860 | ||
46WORD StructureEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 0.45 0.16 down from 2011 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
47The American ArchivistSociety of American Archivists · United States | 3.08Q1 | 0.81 0.09 down from 2011 | 81 | 15% | — | ||
48Journal of Cultural EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.07Q1 | 1.15 0.50 up from 2011 | 63 | 22% | $3,290 | ||
49Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.06Q1 | 1.24 0.93 up from 2011 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
50Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.05Q1 | 1.00 0.12 up from 2011 | 108 | 20% | $2,712 |
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
163 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 377
- Window papers (baseline)
- 450,451 +18.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +1.2% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.