Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2018
497 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 497 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The top three are Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, Language Culture and Curriculum, and Research on Language and Social Interaction.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
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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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 15.86Q1 | 3.48 2.32 up from 2017 | 45 | 10% | — | ||
2Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 9.93Q1 | 1.83 0.97 down from 2017 | 67 | 30% | — | ||
3Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.30Q1 | 2.76no change | 72 | 54% | — | ||
4Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 7.26Q1 | 4.90 0.98 up from 2017 | 167 | 10% | $3,800 | ||
5Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.96Q1 | 3.39 0.93 down from 2017 | 96 | 9% | $3,830 | ||
6Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.69Q1 | 2.00 0.33 up from 2017 | 115 | 38% | — | ||
7Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 5.46 2.78 up from 2017 | 49 | 30% | $5,137 | ||
8Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 3.22 0.55 up from 2017 | 121 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
9Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 5.27Q1 | 1.02 0.61 up from 2017 | 74 | 57% | $0 listed | ||
10Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 5.10Q1 | 2.77 0.84 up from 2017 | 39 | 35% | $0 listed | ||
11Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 1.04 0.28 down from 2017 | 37 | 28% | — | ||
12English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 4.89Q1 | 2.69 0.52 up from 2017 | 106 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
13Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 2.65 1.06 up from 2017 | 145 | 62% | $3,550 | ||
14Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.58Q1 | 2.69 0.38 up from 2017 | 62 | 46% | $3,650 | ||
15Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.56Q1 | 2.83 0.87 up from 2017 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 2.57 0.71 up from 2017 | 457 | 30% | $3,260 | ||
17English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 4.24Q1 | 1.40 0.72 up from 2017 | 62 | 8% | — | ||
18Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 3.29 0.52 up from 2017 | 108 | 20% | — | ||
19SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 1.94 0.59 up from 2017 | 570 | 12% | $3,980 | ||
20Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 4.08Q1 | 2.69 1.58 up from 2017 | 159 | 20% | $3,570 | ||
21Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 2.05 0.38 up from 2017 | 95 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
22Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.91Q1 | 2.30 0.06 up from 2017 | 146 | 13% | $3,730 | ||
23Museum and SocietyOAUniversity of Leicester · United Kingdom | 3.91Q1 | 1.12 0.04 up from 2017 | 177 | 100% | — | ||
24International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 1.60 0.20 up from 2017 | 213 | 29% | — | ||
25CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 2.53 1.29 up from 2017 | 101 | 9% | — | ||
26Intercultural PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.74Q1 | 2.40 1.02 up from 2017 | 77 | 24% | $2,712 | ||
27Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)John Benjamins Publishing Company | 3.73Q1 | 1.13 1.03 down from 2017 | 592 | 86% | — | ||
28Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 1.72 0.70 down from 2017 | 105 | 33% | $3,090 | ||
29Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 3.62Q1 | 1.75 0.28 up from 2017 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
30Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 3.74 1.46 up from 2017 | 138 | 56% | $3,550 | ||
31Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 3.59Q1 | 2.30 1.05 down from 2017 | 88 | 21% | — | ||
32Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic TheoryDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.57Q1 | 3.12 2.20 up from 2017 | 57 | 39% | $0 listed | ||
33Childhood in the PastTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 1.52 0.19 down from 2017 | 32 | 22% | — | ||
34Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 2.73 0.64 up from 2017 | 131 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
35Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 1.05 0.23 down from 2017 | 103 | 44% | — | ||
36Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 2.08 0.24 up from 2017 | 59 | 28% | — | ||
37Semantics and PragmaticsOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.37Q1 | 2.38 0.72 down from 2017 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
38Language Typology and UniversalsDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.35Q1 | 0.29 1.32 down from 2017 | 76 | 26% | $2,712 | ||
39Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 1.44 0.78 up from 2017 | 88 | 35% | — | ||
40Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.30Q1 | 1.36 1.05 down from 2017 | 53 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
41The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 1.59 0.33 down from 2017 | 80 | 20% | — | ||
42ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.83 0.79 up from 2017 | 270 | 19% | $5,481 | ||
43IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.23Q1 | 1.52 0.60 down from 2017 | 75 | 31% | $2,712 | ||
44Journal of Archaeological ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 4.27 0.59 up from 2017 | 474 | 48% | $4,040 | ||
45EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 1.00 0.27 up from 2017 | 158 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
46Records Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 2.18 0.71 up from 2017 | 58 | 24% | — | ||
47SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 1.80 2.93 down from 2017 | 40 | 13% | $3,240 | ||
48Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.92Q1 | 2.47 2.03 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
49LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 2.91Q1 | 2.12 0.06 down from 2017 | 209 | 24% | — | ||
50Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 1.69 0.04 down from 2017 | 53 | 25% | $3,650 |
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
152 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 497
- Window papers (baseline)
- 538,902 +10.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.9408 +12.0% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.