Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2013
403 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 403 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Research on Language and Social Interaction, Natural Language Semantics, and Journal of Second Language Writing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.76Q1 | 3.61 0.64 up from 2012 | 58 | 25% | — | ||
2Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.48Q1 | 3.07 0.97 up from 2012 | 41 | 9% | $3,090 | ||
3Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 9.22Q1 | 3.39 0.66 up from 2012 | 81 | 4% | $3,830 | ||
4Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 8.48Q1 | 0.96 0.54 down from 2012 | 38 | 29% | $0 listed | ||
5Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.31Q1 | 2.31 0.72 down from 2012 | 52 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
6SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 2.21 1.92 down from 2012 | 40 | 13% | $3,240 | ||
7Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 2.55 0.48 down from 2012 | 79 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
8Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 6.23Q1 | 2.42 0.19 up from 2012 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
9Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 5.89Q1 | 2.31 1.33 down from 2012 | 100 | 14% | — | ||
10Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 2.43 0.52 down from 2012 | 98 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
11ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 1.73 0.41 up from 2012 | 255 | 4% | $5,481 | ||
12Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 5.27Q1 | 1.59 0.26 up from 2012 | 144 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
13Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 1.92 0.29 up from 2012 | 108 | 8% | $3,730 | ||
14English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 5.18Q1 | 1.89 0.05 down from 2012 | 96 | 8% | $3,590 | ||
15Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 1.77 0.07 up from 2012 | 113 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
16Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 2.00 0.72 up from 2012 | 154 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
17Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 1.25 0.38 down from 2012 | 30 | 13% | — | ||
18Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 2.37 0.88 down from 2012 | 56 | 11% | $5,137 | ||
19Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.42Q1 | 1.19 0.32 down from 2012 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
20International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 1.03 0.23 up from 2012 | 188 | 19% | — | ||
21LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 4.12Q1 | 2.37 0.08 down from 2012 | 133 | 15% | — | ||
22Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.11Q1 | 1.67 0.04 up from 2012 | 592 | 15% | $3,260 | ||
23Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.11Q1 | 2.67 0.93 down from 2012 | 89 | 17% | $3,090 | ||
24Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 2.48 0.43 up from 2012 | 111 | 17% | — | ||
25SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 0.97 0.10 up from 2012 | 556 | 3% | $3,980 | ||
26Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.73Q1 | 3.19 1.84 up from 2012 | 51 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
27Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 3.58Q1 | 0.74 0.24 down from 2012 | 79 | 7% | — | ||
28Journal of Music Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.56Q1 | 0.69 0.03 up from 2012 | 51 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
29Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 1.48 0.73 up from 2012 | 64 | 10% | — | ||
30CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 1.79 0.07 up from 2012 | 122 | 21% | — | ||
31Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 3.33Q1 | 1.27 0.04 up from 2012 | 324 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
32Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 1.19 0.48 up from 2012 | 141 | 4% | — | ||
33Journal of Material CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 0.83 0.25 down from 2012 | 69 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
34British Journal of Music EducationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 0.54 0.23 down from 2012 | 103 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
35OsirisUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.01Q1 | 2.15 1.07 up from 2012 | 39 | 12% | — | ||
36Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 0.98 0.23 up from 2012 | 57 | 13% | — | ||
37The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 2.87Q1 | 1.02 0.33 down from 2012 | 65 | 33% | $3,190 | ||
38Journal of Cultural EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 0.93 0.21 down from 2012 | 81 | 16% | $3,290 | ||
39Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 1.31 0.12 down from 2012 | 213 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
40Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 0.64 0.36 down from 2012 | 33 | 18% | $2,900 | ||
41Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 1.36 0.67 up from 2012 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
42Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 1.74 0.12 down from 2012 | 53 | 6% | $3,090 | ||
43International Journal of Art & Design EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 0.85 0.03 down from 2012 | 104 | 11% | $2,900 | ||
44Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.68Q1 | 1.66 0.04 down from 2012 | 265 | 20% | $3,380 | ||
45Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 0.75 0.25 up from 2012 | 97 | 14% | — | ||
46Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 2.64Q1 | 1.04 0.42 down from 2012 | 106 | 1% | $3,860 | ||
47Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 2.63Q1 | 0.69 0.08 up from 2012 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
48Digital humanities quarterlyOAAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · United States | 2.63Q1 | 0.69 0.05 down from 2012 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
49Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 2.62Q1 | 0.95 0.10 up from 2012 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
50IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 1.25 0.69 down from 2012 | 44 | 48% | $2,712 |
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
159 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 403
- Window papers (baseline)
- 464,727 +14.5% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.939 +6.1% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.