Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2017
472 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 472 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.77. The top three are Translation Spaces, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and Studia Linguistica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 in Arts and Humanities (13)
Up to Social Sciences472 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Translation SpacesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 10.54Q1 | 6.23 4.44 up from 2016 | 39 | 30% | — | ||
2Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 10.03Q1 | 2.76 0.07 up from 2016 | 74 | 46% | — | ||
3Studia LinguisticaWiley · United States | 9.61Q1 | 2.00 0.54 up from 2016 | 43 | 45% | $2,900 | ||
4Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 8.01Q1 | 3.35 0.50 up from 2016 | 86 | 34% | — | ||
5Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.70Q1 | 2.80 0.55 down from 2016 | 71 | 25% | — | ||
6SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 7.49Q1 | 4.73 2.56 up from 2016 | 35 | 5% | $3,240 | ||
7The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.36Q1 | 1.92 0.98 up from 2016 | 76 | 31% | — | ||
8Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.19Q1 | 2.42 0.63 up from 2016 | 126 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
9Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.99Q1 | 4.33 1.78 up from 2016 | 88 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
10Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 1.73 0.12 down from 2016 | 48 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.14Q1 | 2.31 0.07 up from 2016 | 56 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
12Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.97Q1 | 3.92 1.44 up from 2016 | 205 | 19% | $3,800 | ||
13Semantics and PragmaticsOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 4.85Q1 | 3.09 2.15 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
14Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 1.32 0.07 down from 2016 | 35 | 25% | — | ||
15Target International Journal of Translation StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.77Q1 | 2.70 2.03 up from 2016 | 122 | 17% | — | ||
16Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 4.75Q1 | 1.93 0.57 down from 2016 | 39 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
17Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 1.67 0.06 up from 2016 | 91 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
18Linguistic VariationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.71Q1 | 1.21 0.12 up from 2016 | 36 | 29% | — | ||
19Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.68Q1 | 1.67 0.01 down from 2016 | 113 | 24% | — | ||
20English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 2.18 0.75 down from 2016 | 118 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
21Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 1.17 0.40 down from 2016 | 49 | 5% | — | ||
22Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)John Benjamins Publishing Company | 4.54Q1 | 2.16 1.06 down from 2016 | 566 | 87% | — | ||
23Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 2.67 0.07 down from 2016 | 132 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
24Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.37Q1 | 1.97 0.36 down from 2016 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 2.24 0.79 up from 2016 | 141 | 10% | $3,730 | ||
26PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.96 0.89 up from 2016 | 117 | 22% | — | ||
27SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.35 0.04 up from 2016 | 638 | 10% | $3,980 | ||
28Functional LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.20Q1 | 1.52 0.19 down from 2016 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
29The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 4.02Q1 | 1.51 0.54 down from 2016 | 62 | 55% | $3,190 | ||
30Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 2.77 0.82 up from 2016 | 89 | 16% | — | ||
31Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 1.85 0.02 up from 2016 | 418 | 35% | $3,260 | ||
32Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 1.59 0.04 up from 2016 | 129 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
33International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.41 0.11 down from 2016 | 148 | 28% | — | ||
34Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 3.72Q1 | 1.46 0.18 up from 2016 | 104 | 6% | — | ||
35LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.71Q1 | 2.18 0.60 up from 2016 | 201 | 29% | — | ||
36Discourse Context & MediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.66Q1 | 1.86 0.12 up from 2016 | 94 | 11% | $3,770 | ||
37Records Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 1.47 0.83 up from 2016 | 60 | 29% | — | ||
38Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.63Q1 | 0.40 0.67 down from 2016 | 65 | 35% | $0 listed | ||
39Acta Linguistica HafniensiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 1.78 1.37 up from 2016 | 37 | 29% | — | ||
40IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.53Q1 | 2.11 0.14 up from 2016 | 50 | 13% | $2,712 | ||
41Museum and SocietyOAUniversity of Leicester · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 1.08 0.22 up from 2016 | 125 | 100% | — | ||
42Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.28 0.12 up from 2016 | 98 | 33% | — | ||
43Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 3.41Q1 | 1.47 0.22 down from 2016 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
44Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 1.28 0.75 down from 2016 | 169 | 8% | $3,030 | ||
45Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.98 0.05 up from 2016 | 92 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
46Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.23Q1 | 1.27 0.31 down from 2016 | 76 | 13% | $2,712 | ||
47Journal of Mediterranean ArchaeologySheffield Academic Press · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 1.48no change | 41 | 0% | — | ||
48LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 1.00 0.20 up from 2016 | 126 | 38% | $0 listed | ||
49Across Languages and CulturesAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 3.12Q1 | 1.97 1.63 up from 2016 | 57 | 25% | — | ||
50Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.68 0.17 up from 2016 | 749 | 41% | $4,040 |
Citations made in 2017. 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.
167 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 472
- Window papers (baseline)
- 524,369 +10.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +1.1% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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 | 240 | 255 | 265 | 272 | 275 | 288 | 310 | 316 | 329 | 335 | 345 | 360 | 377 | 403 | 422 | 443 | 460 | 472 | 497 | 507 | 513 | 518 | 535 | 537 | 539 | 536 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 221,321 | 279,847 | 294,456 | 312,227 | 279,317 | 298,100 | 312,834 | 331,747 | 353,197 | 379,622 | 406,003 | 431,868 | 450,451 | 464,727 | 474,562 | 488,100 | 509,856 | 524,369 | 538,902 | 557,204 | 570,365 | 583,919 | 578,750 | 571,888 | 560,239 | 567,751 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.66 | 0.64 | 0.71 | 0.794 | 0.789 | 0.8877 | 0.893 | 0.885 | 0.8879 | 0.90 | 0.939 | 0.92 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.9408 | 1.01 | 0.9405 | 0.88 | 0.82 | 0.835 | 0.81 | 0.77 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 5.7% | 196 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.249 per 1,000 | 200 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.5% | 491 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 52.7% | 536 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 181 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 15.7% | 453 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 536 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.78 | 532 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 64.8% | 536 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 60.7% | 534 journals |
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.