Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2016
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Literature and Literary Theory has 56 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.23 on 2015 to 1.11, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.57. The top three are Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, Language Culture and Curriculum, and Journal of Second Language Writing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
56 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 9.22Q1 | 1.57 0.34 down from 2015 | 51 | 5% | — | ||
2Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 8.11Q1 | 3.35 1.50 up from 2015 | 62 | 19% | — | ||
3Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.68Q1 | 2.55 0.62 up from 2015 | 107 | 13% | $3,830 | ||
4English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 5.72Q1 | 2.93 1.25 up from 2015 | 126 | 23% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 5.59Q1 | 1.57 0.09 down from 2015 | 66 | 12% | $2,712 | ||
6Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 1.85 1.54 down from 2015 | 49 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
7Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 1.68 0.19 up from 2015 | 117 | 2% | — | ||
8Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 4.92Q1 | 1.27 0.33 up from 2015 | 100 | 3% | — | ||
9Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.48Q1 | 2.24 0.52 up from 2015 | 49 | 46% | $3,650 | ||
10ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 1.16 0.30 down from 2015 | 270 | 13% | $5,481 | ||
11LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 0.98 0.50 down from 2015 | 59 | 26% | $3,470 | ||
12The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.66Q1 | 2.05 0.20 up from 2015 | 59 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
13Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 3.58Q1 | 1.81 0.65 up from 2015 | 46 | 19% | — | ||
14Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 1.45 1.82 down from 2015 | 138 | 9% | $3,730 | ||
15Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.16Q2 | 1.91 0.43 down from 2015 | 50 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
16TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 2.87Q2 | 0.78 1.24 down from 2015 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of the Text Encoding InitiativeOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · United States | 2.86Q2 | 2.00 1.62 up from 2015 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
18English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 2.59Q2 | 0.66 0.01 up from 2015 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
19Digital humanities quarterlyOAAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · United States | 2.43Q2 | 0.66 0.02 down from 2015 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of Folklore ResearchIndiana University Press · United States | 2.00Q2 | 0.34 0.21 down from 2015 | 43 | 13% | — | ||
21International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 0.70 0.16 down from 2015 | 78 | 11% | — | ||
22Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas ExtranjerasOARovira i Virgili University · Spain | 1.75Q2 | 0.77 0.19 up from 2015 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
23Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.62Q2 | 0.41 0.44 down from 2015 | 209 | 1% | — | ||
24Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 1.60Q2 | 0.78 0.10 down from 2015 | 131 | 7% | $3,860 | ||
25Scientific Study of LiteratureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 1.88 0.53 up from 2015 | 48 | 19% | — | ||
26Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 0.68 0.29 down from 2015 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
27Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.38 0.09 up from 2015 | 72 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
28European Journal of Language PolicyLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.00 0.45 down from 2015 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
29Language and LiteracyOALanguage and Literacy Researchers of Canada · Canada | 1.10Q3 | 0.43 0.18 down from 2015 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
30English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q3 | 0.49 0.25 up from 2015 | 148 | 11% | — | ||
31Linguagem em (Dis)cursoOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil | 1.03Q3 | 0.44 0.10 up from 2015 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
32The Journal of Popular TelevisionIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 0.50 0.27 up from 2015 | 69 | 20% | — | ||
33Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated LearningOAUniversity of La Sabana · Colombia | 0.96Q3 | 0.08 0.57 down from 2015 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
34UbiquityOAAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.94Q3 | 1.39 0.92 up from 2015 | 61 | 62% | — | ||
35Literacy in Composition StudiesOAUnited States | 0.89Q3 | 0.24 0.43 down from 2015 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
36College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 0.81Q3 | 0.24 0.10 down from 2015 | 165 | 0% | — | ||
37Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.80Q3 | 0.20no change | 71 | 100% | — | ||
38HispaniaAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.22 0.08 down from 2015 | 399 | 0% | — | ||
39The EuroCALL ReviewOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.79Q3 | 0.43 0.05 up from 2015 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
40ProjectionsBerghahn Books · United States | 0.76Q3 | 0.87 0.54 up from 2015 | 43 | 21% | — | ||
41Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LiteratureOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 0.74Q3 | 0.23 0.06 up from 2015 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
42Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil | 0.68Q3 | 0.29 0.10 down from 2015 | 148 | 100% | — | ||
43DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.67Q4 | 0.18no change | 111 | 100% | — | ||
44Digital Studies / Le champ numériqueOAOpen Library of Humanities · Canada | 0.59Q4 | 0.28 0.05 up from 2015 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
45Multimodal CommunicationDe Gruyter · New Zealand | 0.58Q4 | 0.48 0.35 up from 2015 | 39 | 12% | $2,712 | ||
46Linguistics and the Human SciencesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.56Q4 | 0.21 0.17 down from 2015 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
47Language Learning in Higher EducationDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.55Q4 | 0.33 0.06 up from 2015 | 94 | 27% | $2,712 | ||
48English Text ConstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.54Q4 | 0.41 0.15 up from 2015 | 57 | 16% | — | ||
49ABRALINOABrazil | 0.53Q4 | 0.25 0.15 up from 2015 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
50Human Ecology ReviewOAANU Press · Australia | 0.49Q4 | 0.44 0.69 down from 2015 | 32 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Literature and Literary Theory highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics135
- Philosophy83
- Archeology62
- Literature and Literary Theory56
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Music26
- Conservation21
- Museology21
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts19
- History9
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 94,470 +8.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.11 -15.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 28 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 60 | 64 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 72 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,152 | 41,293 | 44,360 | 47,693 | 50,568 | 53,724 | 56,806 | 60,437 | 65,031 | 69,362 | 74,882 | 79,853 | 84,459 | 87,431 | 89,177 | 91,543 | 94,470 | 97,026 | 99,068 | 101,727 | 103,853 | 106,881 | 106,516 | 103,525 | 100,705 | 102,959 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.91 | 1.05 | 0.99 | 1.12 | 1.014 | 1.18 | 1.10 | 0.94 | 0.901 | 1.26 | 1.31 | 1.49 | 1.303 | 1.299 | 1.335 | 1.11 | 1.339 | 1.35 | 1.24 | 1.51 | 1.010 | 1.02 | 0.93 | 0.903 | 0.89 |
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.