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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Subfield ranking · 2014

Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2014

50 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities

Literature and Literary Theory has 50 ranked journals in 2014. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.30 against 1.00, unchanged on 2013. A journal needs OJR 2.78 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Second Language Writing, Written Communication, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 score is computed on.

50
12% 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
This subfieldAll 0.90World 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: 27%
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 13 journals. 37 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)

50 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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APC (list price)
Literature and Literary Theory ranking, 2014

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 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.

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1Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States
13.78Q13.48 0.09 up from 20131030%$3,830
2Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
6.42Q12.42 0.10 up from 20135111%$3,650
3Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.53Q12.43 0.51 up from 201311913%$3,730
4ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom
5.50Q11.97 0.24 up from 20132606%$5,481
5Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States
5.15Q11.32 0.91 up from 2013858%$3,190
6Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
4.71Q12.58 0.61 down from 20134719%$3,650
7English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States
4.67Q11.42 0.47 down from 201310712%$3,590
8Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom
3.33Q11.83 0.35 up from 20136113%—
3.26Q11.57 0.09 up from 20134216%$2,712
3.10Q11.30 0.27 up from 20136627%$3,190
11Scientific Study of LiteratureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
3.02Q11.23 0.65 up from 20136514%—
12Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.83Q11.09 0.10 down from 201314613%—
13LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom
2.78Q11.18 0.12 up from 20136216%$3,470
2.76Q21.38 0.61 up from 201367100%—
15English Text ConstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
2.45Q21.00 0.71 up from 20135611%—
16Digital humanities quarterlyOAAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · United States
2.37Q20.78 0.09 up from 201378100%—
17Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States
2.35Q20.75 0.01 up from 20138413%—
18College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States
2.05Q20.54 0.10 down from 20131407%—
1.95Q20.86 0.18 down from 20131080%$3,860
20Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States
1.86Q21.26 0.20 down from 20135611%$3,650
21Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States
1.84Q20.56 0.05 up from 20131661%—
22English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English
1.74Q20.49 0.08 down from 2013604%—
23Journal of Folklore ResearchIndiana University Press · United States
1.60Q20.54 0.17 up from 20133813%—
24Journal of the Text Encoding InitiativeOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · United States
1.42Q21.03 0.03 down from 201335100%—
25Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States
1.35Q20.98 0.14 up from 2013620%—
26Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
1.24Q30.89 0.14 up from 2013749%—
1.11Q30.42 0.02 up from 2013350%—
28Language and LiteracyOALanguage and Literacy Researchers of Canada · Canada
1.07Q30.46 0.12 down from 201374100%—
29English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.04Q30.36 0.35 down from 20131370%—
30European Journal of Language PolicyLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom
0.90Q30.29 0.01 up from 2013367%—
0.87Q30.47 0.19 up from 201384100%—
0.86Q30.23 0.02 up from 20136618%$2,712
33DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil
0.85Q30.31 0.13 up from 201396100%—
34The EuroCALL ReviewOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain
0.81Q30.40 0.24 up from 201368100%—
35Linguistics and the Human SciencesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom
0.77Q30.40 0.02 down from 20137513%—
36HispaniaAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese · United States
0.69Q30.21no change4122%—
37International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom
0.67Q30.28 0.12 up from 2013638%—
38ProjectionsBerghahn Books · United States
0.65Q30.81 0.46 up from 20135731%—
39Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil
0.64Q40.18 0.09 down from 2013161100%—
40Shakespeare studiesFairleigh Dickinson University Press · United States
0.57Q40.00 0.43 down from 2013310%—
41Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LiteratureOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain
0.42Q40.14 0.06 down from 201376100%—
42Linguagem em (Dis)cursoOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil
0.38Q40.09 0.05 down from 201394100%—
43UbiquityOAAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
0.34Q40.31 0.16 down from 20135374%—
44Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil
0.30Q40.12 0.02 down from 201380100%—
45ABRALINOABrazil
0.26Q40.18 0.06 up from 201388100%—
46Minnesota ReviewDuke University Press · United States
0.07Q40.03 0.06 down from 20131753%—
0.07Q40.08 0.04 up from 20137640%—
48Opticon1826UCL Press · United Kingdom
0.05Q40.02 0.01 down from 20137285%—
49˜The œMissouri reviewUniversity of Missouri · United States
0.02Q40.01 0.01 up from 20133340%—
50IdeaçãoOABrazil
0.00Q40.00 0.04 down from 201341100%—

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.

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 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
50
Window papers (baseline)
89,177 +11.7% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
1.299 -0.7% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

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.