Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2013
114 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 114 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2012 to 1.34, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.56. The top three are Research on Language and Social Interaction, Natural Language Semantics, and Journal of Politeness Research.
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 of Arts and Humanities (13)
114 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 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 Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 8.48Q1 | 0.96 0.54 down from 2012 | 38 | 29% | $0 listed | ||
4SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 2.21 1.92 down from 2012 | 40 | 13% | $3,240 | ||
5Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 2.55 0.48 down from 2012 | 79 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
6Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 6.23Q1 | 2.42 0.19 up from 2012 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
7Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 5.89Q1 | 2.31 1.33 down from 2012 | 100 | 14% | — | ||
8Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 2.43 0.52 down from 2012 | 98 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
9Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 5.27Q1 | 1.59 0.26 up from 2012 | 144 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
10Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 1.77 0.07 up from 2012 | 113 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
11Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 2.00 0.72 up from 2012 | 154 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
12Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 1.25 0.38 down from 2012 | 30 | 13% | — | ||
13Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 2.37 0.88 down from 2012 | 56 | 11% | $5,137 | ||
14LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 4.12Q1 | 2.37 0.08 down from 2012 | 133 | 15% | — | ||
15Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.11Q1 | 1.67 0.04 up from 2012 | 592 | 15% | $3,260 | ||
16Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.11Q1 | 2.67 0.93 down from 2012 | 89 | 17% | $3,090 | ||
17Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 2.48 0.43 up from 2012 | 111 | 17% | — | ||
18SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 0.97 0.10 up from 2012 | 556 | 3% | $3,980 | ||
19CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 1.79 0.07 up from 2012 | 122 | 21% | — | ||
20Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 3.33Q1 | 1.27 0.04 up from 2012 | 324 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
21Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 0.98 0.23 up from 2012 | 57 | 13% | — | ||
22Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 1.31 0.12 down from 2012 | 213 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
23Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 0.64 0.36 down from 2012 | 33 | 18% | $2,900 | ||
24Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 1.36 0.67 up from 2012 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
25Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 1.74 0.12 down from 2012 | 53 | 6% | $3,090 | ||
26IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 1.25 0.69 down from 2012 | 44 | 48% | $2,712 | ||
27MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 1.43 3.03 down from 2012 | 58 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
28Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 1.40 0.23 up from 2012 | 89 | 11% | $3,030 | ||
29Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 1.07 0.18 down from 2012 | 68 | 12% | $2,712 | ||
30Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic TheoryOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 2.52Q2 | 0.87 0.43 down from 2012 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
31Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.44Q2 | 0.97 0.15 up from 2012 | 87 | 10% | — | ||
32International Journal of LexicographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.38Q2 | 0.68 0.35 down from 2012 | 125 | 5% | $4,942 | ||
33Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic TheoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.35Q2 | 1.54 0.63 up from 2012 | 35 | 31% | $0 listed | ||
34The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.26Q2 | 1.11 0.45 up from 2012 | 54 | 27% | $2,712 | ||
35ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.16Q2 | 0.72 1.80 down from 2012 | 30 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
36Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.08Q2 | 1.22 0.46 down from 2012 | 93 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
37LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.02Q2 | 0.96 0.91 down from 2012 | 123 | 45% | $0 listed | ||
38Across Languages and CulturesAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 1.92Q2 | 0.35 0.04 down from 2012 | 53 | 5% | — | ||
39International Journal of English StudiesOAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.89Q2 | 0.60no change | 73 | 100% | — | ||
40LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q2 | 0.99 0.10 down from 2012 | 342 | 19% | $2,640 | ||
41International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 1.85Q2 | 0.70 0.06 down from 2012 | 91 | 15% | $3,240 | ||
42Functions of LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.83Q2 | 0.16 0.72 down from 2012 | 58 | 5% | — | ||
43Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.83Q2 | 0.67 0.33 down from 2012 | 106 | 22% | $2,712 | ||
44Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.78Q2 | 0.75 0.54 down from 2012 | 42 | 14% | $2,990 | ||
45PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 0.38 0.28 down from 2012 | 98 | 6% | — | ||
46Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized CommunicationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.71Q2 | 0.81 0.47 up from 2012 | 56 | 14% | — | ||
47Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 1.60Q2 | 0.71 0.51 up from 2012 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
48Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.59Q2 | 0.29 0.04 down from 2012 | 33 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
49Studies in Self-Access Learning JournalOAKanda University of International Studies · Japan | 1.58Q2 | 0.76 0.17 up from 2012 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
50Pragmatics and SocietyJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.54Q2 | 0.63 0.05 down from 2012 | 49 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics114
- Philosophy77
- Archeology54
- Literature and Literary Theory46
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Music25
- Conservation19
- Museology16
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts16
- History9
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
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.
65 additional Language and Linguistics 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
- 114
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,341 +21.2% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.34 -16.9% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.