Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2019
507 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 507 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2018 to 1.01, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.79. The top three are Modern Language Journal, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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.
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 9.27Q1 | 5.59 0.69 up from 2018 | 151 | 24% | $3,800 | ||
2Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 8.84Q1 | 3.23 0.17 down from 2018 | 101 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
3Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.26Q1 | 2.90 0.60 up from 2018 | 155 | 14% | $3,730 | ||
4English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 7.19Q1 | 4.52 1.83 up from 2018 | 103 | 16% | $3,590 | ||
5Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 3.07 0.15 down from 2018 | 138 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
6Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.57Q1 | 4.68 2.04 up from 2018 | 125 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
7Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.55Q1 | 3.96 1.20 up from 2018 | 71 | 37% | — | ||
8Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 6.51Q1 | 3.37 1.62 up from 2018 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
9Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.32Q1 | 3.69 2.01 up from 2018 | 54 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.17Q1 | 3.40 0.71 up from 2018 | 70 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
11Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 3.31 2.02 up from 2018 | 43 | 38% | — | ||
12Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 3.23 1.18 up from 2018 | 100 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
13SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 2.89 0.96 up from 2018 | 494 | 9% | $3,980 | ||
14Records Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 1.78 0.40 down from 2018 | 59 | 23% | — | ||
15Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.46Q1 | 1.90 1.08 up from 2018 | 88 | 4% | — | ||
16Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 1.70 0.12 down from 2018 | 72 | 33% | — | ||
17Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 5.34 2.05 up from 2018 | 118 | 10% | — | ||
18Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 1.47 0.59 up from 2018 | 91 | 37% | — | ||
19Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 1.93 0.07 down from 2018 | 105 | 21% | — | ||
20Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 4.19Q1 | 3.17 0.34 up from 2018 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
21Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 4.12Q1 | 1.08 1.38 down from 2018 | 40 | 91% | $0 listed | ||
22Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 4.11Q1 | 2.60 0.30 up from 2018 | 128 | 19% | — | ||
23Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.00Q1 | 1.82 0.80 up from 2018 | 74 | 26% | $2,712 | ||
24SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 1.11 0.69 down from 2018 | 38 | 32% | $3,240 | ||
25Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated LearningOAUniversity of La Sabana · Colombia | 3.89Q1 | 1.00 0.04 up from 2018 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
26Heritage & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 1.08 0.04 up from 2018 | 35 | 11% | — | ||
27EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.73Q1 | 4.79 2.90 up from 2018 | 100 | 23% | — | ||
28Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 3.73Q1 | 2.94 0.25 up from 2018 | 168 | 10% | $3,570 | ||
29Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 2.38 0.66 up from 2018 | 103 | 32% | $3,090 | ||
30Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 1.27 2.22 down from 2018 | 44 | 6% | — | ||
31Language ValueOACarlos V · Spain | 3.62Q1 | 1.00 0.57 up from 2018 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 2.39 1.57 up from 2018 | 46 | 16% | — | ||
33CALICO JournalEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 2.63 0.10 up from 2018 | 83 | 10% | — | ||
34English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 3.59Q1 | 1.19 0.20 down from 2018 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
35Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 4.44 3.17 up from 2018 | 61 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
36Linguistic VariationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.53Q1 | 2.52 1.52 up from 2018 | 43 | 27% | — | ||
37International Journal of Art TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 2.03 1.36 up from 2018 | 55 | 35% | — | ||
38Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 1.65 0.60 up from 2018 | 133 | 35% | — | ||
39Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 3.46Q1 | 2.40 1.45 up from 2018 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
40Semantics and PragmaticsOALinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.43Q1 | 2.25 0.12 down from 2018 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 2.40 3.05 down from 2018 | 58 | 41% | $5,137 | ||
42International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.70 0.09 up from 2018 | 263 | 36% | — | ||
43Trabajos de PrehistoriaOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 3.37Q1 | 1.81 0.98 up from 2018 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of East Asian LinguisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.35Q1 | 0.91 0.72 down from 2018 | 33 | 36% | $2,990 | ||
45LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 3.28Q1 | 2.22 0.10 up from 2018 | 214 | 33% | — | ||
46NoûsWiley · United States | 3.27Q1 | 4.41 2.05 up from 2018 | 122 | 60% | $2,900 | ||
47Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 2.45 0.12 down from 2018 | 493 | 27% | $3,260 | ||
48Corpus PragmaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 3.20Q1 | 1.78 0.81 up from 2018 | 47 | 35% | $3,390 | ||
49DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.10Q1 | 2.12 1.60 up from 2018 | 67 | 4% | — | ||
50LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.09Q1 | 2.02 0.01 up from 2018 | 129 | 46% | $0 listed |
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
150 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 507
- Window papers (baseline)
- 557,204 +9.3% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.01 +11.5% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 | 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.