Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2017
141 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 141 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.19 on 2016 to 1.31, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.83. 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 of Arts and Humanities (13)
141 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% | — | ||
5SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 7.49Q1 | 4.73 2.56 up from 2016 | 35 | 5% | $3,240 | ||
6The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.36Q1 | 1.92 0.98 up from 2016 | 76 | 31% | — | ||
7Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.19Q1 | 2.42 0.63 up from 2016 | 126 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
8Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.97Q1 | 3.92 1.44 up from 2016 | 205 | 19% | $3,800 | ||
9Semantics and PragmaticsOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 4.85Q1 | 3.09 2.15 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
10Target International Journal of Translation StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.77Q1 | 2.70 2.03 up from 2016 | 122 | 17% | — | ||
11Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 4.75Q1 | 1.93 0.57 down from 2016 | 39 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
12Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 1.67 0.06 up from 2016 | 91 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
13Linguistic VariationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.71Q1 | 1.21 0.12 up from 2016 | 36 | 29% | — | ||
14Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)John Benjamins Publishing Company | 4.54Q1 | 2.16 1.06 down from 2016 | 566 | 87% | — | ||
15Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 2.67 0.07 down from 2016 | 132 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
16Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.37Q1 | 1.97 0.36 down from 2016 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
17PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.96 0.89 up from 2016 | 117 | 22% | — | ||
18SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.35 0.04 up from 2016 | 638 | 10% | $3,980 | ||
19Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 2.77 0.82 up from 2016 | 89 | 16% | — | ||
20Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 1.85 0.02 up from 2016 | 418 | 35% | $3,260 | ||
21Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 1.59 0.04 up from 2016 | 129 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
22LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.71Q1 | 2.18 0.60 up from 2016 | 201 | 29% | — | ||
23Discourse Context & MediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.66Q1 | 1.86 0.12 up from 2016 | 94 | 11% | $3,770 | ||
24Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.63Q1 | 0.40 0.67 down from 2016 | 65 | 35% | $0 listed | ||
25Acta Linguistica HafniensiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 1.78 1.37 up from 2016 | 37 | 29% | — | ||
26IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.53Q1 | 2.11 0.14 up from 2016 | 50 | 13% | $2,712 | ||
27Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.28 0.12 up from 2016 | 98 | 33% | — | ||
28Studies 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% | — | ||
29Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 1.28 0.75 down from 2016 | 169 | 8% | $3,030 | ||
30Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.98 0.05 up from 2016 | 92 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
31LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 1.00 0.20 up from 2016 | 126 | 38% | $0 listed | ||
32Across Languages and CulturesAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 3.12Q1 | 1.97 1.63 up from 2016 | 57 | 25% | — | ||
33Journal of Language Aggression and ConflictJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.06Q1 | 1.76 1.22 up from 2016 | 41 | 14% | — | ||
34Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 2.41 0.28 down from 2016 | 50 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
35Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 1.84 1.08 up from 2016 | 44 | 18% | — | ||
36Language Typology and UniversalsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.83Q1 | 1.60 1.46 up from 2016 | 81 | 19% | $2,712 | ||
37Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.76Q2 | 2.68 0.23 up from 2016 | 44 | 46% | $5,137 | ||
38The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.75Q2 | 1.55 0.37 up from 2016 | 68 | 24% | $2,712 | ||
39Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q2 | 1.30 0.33 up from 2016 | 114 | 6% | — | ||
40Journal of LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.57Q2 | 1.52 0.82 up from 2016 | 108 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
41Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.53Q2 | 0.69 0.19 up from 2016 | 47 | 10% | — | ||
42Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 2.53Q2 | 1.11 0.23 down from 2016 | 150 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
43Translation StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.51Q2 | 0.36 0.30 down from 2016 | 88 | 17% | — | ||
44MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.46Q2 | 1.02 0.33 down from 2016 | 68 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
45Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 0.93 0.24 up from 2016 | 72 | 15% | — | ||
46Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.32Q2 | 1.35 0.76 up from 2016 | 38 | 14% | — | ||
47L2 JournalOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 2.26Q2 | 0.98 0.33 up from 2016 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
48LinguaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q2 | 1.39 0.19 down from 2016 | 344 | 22% | $2,640 | ||
49CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 1.24 0.84 down from 2016 | 82 | 6% | — | ||
50Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.20Q2 | 1.38 0.49 up from 2016 | 73 | 6% | $2,712 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics141
- Philosophy85
- Archeology64
- Literature and Literary Theory59
- Music28
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Museology22
- Conservation21
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts18
- History7
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
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.
63 additional Language and Linguistics 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
- 141
- Window papers (baseline)
- 69,414 +6.3% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.31 -22.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| 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.