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Journal rankings · indicator year 2013

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Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2013

46 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities

Literature and Literary Theory has 46 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.18 on 2012 to 1.30, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.63. The top three are Journal of Second Language Writing, Written Communication, and ELT Journal.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

46
11% of Arts and Humanities
Median OJR

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.

1.30-0.18 vs 2012
This subfieldAll 0.92World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

28%
All fields: 26%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,650
Median positive listed APC: $3,650 among 11 journals. 35 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)

46 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Literature and Literary Theory ranking, 2013

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.

OJR

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.

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1Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States
9.22Q13.39 0.66 up from 2012814%$3,830
2Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
8.31Q12.31 0.72 down from 20125211%$3,650
3ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom
5.42Q11.73 0.41 up from 20122554%$5,481
4Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.21Q11.92 0.29 up from 20121088%$3,730
5English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States
5.18Q11.89 0.05 down from 2012968%$3,590
6Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
3.73Q13.19 1.84 up from 20125127%$3,650
7Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States
3.58Q10.74 0.24 down from 2012797%—
8Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom
3.48Q11.48 0.73 up from 20126410%—
9Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
3.27Q11.19 0.48 up from 20121414%—
2.87Q11.02 0.33 down from 20126533%$3,190
2.64Q11.04 0.42 down from 20121061%$3,860
12Digital humanities quarterlyOAAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · United States
2.63Q10.69 0.05 down from 201270100%—
13Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States
2.37Q21.46 0.38 down from 20125211%$3,650
14LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom
2.29Q21.07 0.49 up from 2012798%$3,470
15Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States
2.19Q20.41 0.21 down from 2012944%$3,190
16English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English
2.02Q20.56 0.17 down from 2012610%—
17Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
1.97Q20.75 0.39 down from 20127413%—
18English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.85Q20.71 0.03 down from 2012854%—
19European Journal of Language PolicyLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom
1.82Q20.28 0.28 down from 2012407%—
20Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States
1.76Q20.51 0.14 up from 20121915%—
1.61Q20.77 0.24 up from 201265100%—
22College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States
1.56Q20.64 0.01 down from 20121406%—
23Language and LiteracyOALanguage and Literacy Researchers of Canada · Canada
1.36Q20.58 0.29 up from 201273100%—
24Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States
1.24Q30.84 0.09 down from 2012649%—
1.11Q30.40 0.35 up from 2012319%—
26Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil
0.95Q30.14 0.36 down from 201292100%—
27Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil
0.83Q30.26 0.18 down from 2012157100%—
28Journal of Folklore ResearchIndiana University Press · United States
0.82Q30.37 0.03 down from 2012450%—
29Scientific Study of LiteratureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
0.76Q30.58 0.08 up from 2012430%—
30HispaniaAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese · United States
0.74Q30.22 0.10 up from 20124011%—
31English Text ConstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
0.73Q30.29 0.28 down from 2012545%—
0.69Q30.29 0.17 down from 201275100%—
33Linguistics and the Human SciencesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom
0.69Q30.42 0.06 up from 20126619%—
34IdeaçãoOABrazil
0.64Q30.04 0.37 down from 201245100%—
35DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil
0.58Q30.18 0.07 down from 2012114100%—
36Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LiteratureOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain
0.54Q40.20 0.14 up from 201278100%—
37Linguagem em (Dis)cursoOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil
0.49Q40.14 0.01 up from 2012106100%—
38The EuroCALL ReviewOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain
0.42Q40.16 0.16 down from 201266100%—
39UbiquityOAAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
0.41Q40.47 0.12 down from 20125371%—
40International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom
0.40Q40.16 0.19 down from 2012418%—
41ProjectionsBerghahn Books · United States
0.40Q40.35 0.17 down from 20125718%—
42Minnesota ReviewDuke University Press · United States
0.33Q40.09 0.04 down from 20121363%—
43ABRALINOABrazil
0.30Q40.12 0.04 up from 201267100%—
44Opticon1826UCL Press · United Kingdom
0.07Q40.03 0.06 down from 20128064%—
0.06Q40.04 0.01 down from 20129250%—
46˜The œMissouri reviewUniversity of Missouri · United States
0.01Q40.00no change3470%—

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.

24 additional Literature and Literary Theory 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
46
Window papers (baseline)
87,431 +16.8% from indicator year 2010
Median OJR
1.303 +3.7% from indicator year 2010
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals2830313230313535373639414346505556596263606473737672
Window papers (baseline)39,15241,29344,36047,69350,56853,72456,80660,43765,03169,36274,88279,85384,45987,43189,17791,54394,47097,02699,068101,727103,853106,881106,516103,525100,705102,959
Median OJR0.770.911.050.991.121.0141.181.100.940.9011.261.311.491.3031.2991.3351.111.3391.351.241.511.0101.020.930.9030.89

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.