Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2014
123 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 123 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR rose 0.35 on 2013 to 1.69, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.33. The top three are Research on Language and Social Interaction, Linguistic Inquiry, and Journal of Politeness Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
123 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.43Q1 | 5.17 1.56 up from 2013 | 60 | 33% | — | ||
2Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 8.99Q1 | 4.48 2.17 up from 2013 | 93 | 15% | — | ||
3Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 8.98Q1 | 2.00 1.04 up from 2013 | 37 | 43% | $0 listed | ||
4LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 8.71Q1 | 3.66 2.70 up from 2013 | 130 | 34% | $0 listed | ||
5SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 8.50Q1 | 3.40 1.19 up from 2013 | 38 | 29% | $3,240 | ||
6Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.92Q1 | 2.28 0.28 down from 2013 | 88 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
7Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.25Q1 | 2.68 0.39 down from 2013 | 38 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
8Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.63Q1 | 3.73 1.98 up from 2013 | 51 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
9Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.18Q1 | 2.86 0.19 up from 2013 | 95 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
10Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.76Q1 | 3.07 1.40 up from 2013 | 521 | 17% | $3,260 | ||
11LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 5.02Q1 | 3.51 1.14 up from 2013 | 142 | 17% | — | ||
12Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.99Q1 | 2.01 0.41 down from 2013 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
13Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 1.55 0.45 down from 2013 | 155 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
14Discourse Context & MediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 2.30 1.48 up from 2013 | 44 | 8% | $3,770 | ||
15MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.42Q1 | 2.95 1.51 up from 2013 | 42 | 26% | $3,090 | ||
16Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 2.46 0.69 up from 2013 | 126 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
17SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 0.88 0.09 down from 2013 | 601 | 3% | $3,980 | ||
18Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 1.75 0.35 up from 2013 | 104 | 15% | $3,030 | ||
19Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 2.30 0.07 down from 2013 | 54 | 21% | $5,137 | ||
20Folia LinguisticaDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.08Q1 | 2.00 1.46 up from 2013 | 54 | 23% | $2,712 | ||
21Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 3.95Q1 | 1.60 0.96 up from 2013 | 36 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
22Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 2.07 0.41 down from 2013 | 121 | 9% | — | ||
23Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 3.84Q1 | 2.04 0.78 up from 2013 | 257 | 8% | $3,800 | ||
24The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.79Q1 | 2.25 1.14 up from 2013 | 55 | 30% | $2,712 | ||
25Translation StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 0.87 0.48 up from 2013 | 85 | 33% | — | ||
26Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.50Q1 | 1.48 0.86 up from 2013 | 90 | 25% | $0 listed | ||
27Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 1.22no change | 91 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
28Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 1.83 0.24 up from 2013 | 140 | 16% | $3,570 | ||
29Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.36Q1 | 0.27 0.02 down from 2013 | 34 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
30Catalan Journal of LinguisticsOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 3.34Q1 | 0.86 0.53 up from 2013 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
31Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 2.15 0.28 down from 2013 | 85 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
32Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic TheoryOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.32Q2 | 2.16 1.29 up from 2013 | 103 | — | — | ||
33LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.20Q2 | 2.23 1.23 up from 2013 | 331 | 25% | $2,640 | ||
34Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.09Q2 | 1.61 1.34 up from 2013 | 54 | 29% | — | ||
35Journal of Greek LinguisticsOABrill · Netherlands | 3.06Q2 | 1.72 1.63 up from 2013 | 48 | 100% | $533 | ||
36IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.01Q2 | 1.29 0.04 up from 2013 | 44 | 15% | $2,712 | ||
37Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.00Q2 | 0.83 0.47 up from 2013 | 75 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
38Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic TheoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.84Q2 | 1.66 0.12 up from 2013 | 47 | 40% | $0 listed | ||
39Language SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.79Q2 | 2.47 1.68 up from 2013 | 210 | 16% | $2,510 | ||
40Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.76Q2 | 1.98 0.91 up from 2013 | 69 | 21% | $2,712 | ||
41Studies in LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.73Q2 | 1.13 0.66 up from 2013 | 125 | 15% | — | ||
42IALLT Journal of Language Learning TechnologiesOAUniversity of Kansas · United States | 2.70Q2 | 1.23 0.70 up from 2013 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
43DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.68Q2 | 1.44 1.13 up from 2013 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
44Text and TalkDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.68Q2 | 1.24 0.57 up from 2013 | 104 | 38% | $2,712 | ||
45CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.63Q2 | 1.05 0.74 down from 2013 | 173 | 9% | — | ||
46Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized CommunicationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.47Q2 | 0.62 0.19 down from 2013 | 56 | 17% | — | ||
47Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 1.75 0.44 up from 2013 | 206 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
48Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.26Q2 | 1.12 0.24 down from 2013 | 82 | 14% | — | ||
49Target International Journal of Translation StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.23Q2 | 0.87 0.51 up from 2013 | 91 | 10% | — | ||
50Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.20Q2 | 0.58 0.39 down from 2013 | 70 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics123
- Philosophy79
- Archeology55
- Literature and Literary Theory50
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Music25
- Conservation20
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts18
- Museology17
- History8
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
62 additional Language and Linguistics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 123
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,295 +13.4% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.69 +12.8% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.