Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Field ranking · 2022
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2022
535 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 535 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2021 to 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Modern Language Journal, System, and Journal of Second Language Writing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 8.91Q1 | 6.13 1.83 down from 2021 | 166 | 35% | $3,800 | ||
2SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.08Q1 | 8.64 3.09 up from 2021 | 439 | 26% | $3,980 | ||
3Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 7.88Q1 | 6.67 0.54 up from 2021 | 105 | 12% | $3,830 | ||
4Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 5.72 2.39 up from 2021 | 82 | 23% | — | ||
5Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 4.66 0.76 up from 2021 | 88 | 33% | — | ||
6English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 5.34Q1 | 4.35 0.49 up from 2021 | 95 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
7Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.32Q1 | 3.96 1.40 down from 2021 | 69 | 40% | — | ||
8Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 4.63 0.58 up from 2021 | 156 | 63% | $3,550 | ||
9Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 8.13 0.04 up from 2021 | 267 | 14% | — | ||
10Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 5.10 0.11 up from 2021 | 293 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
11Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 2.10 1.39 down from 2021 | 70 | 52% | — | ||
12Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 4.13 0.24 up from 2021 | 197 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
13Journal of Modern PhilosophyOAUnited States | 4.80Q1 | 2.00 0.50 up from 2021 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
14Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 3.55 0.19 up from 2021 | 124 | 40% | — | ||
15Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.79Q1 | 4.38 0.70 up from 2021 | 78 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
16Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 2.49 0.67 down from 2021 | 128 | 37% | — | ||
17Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 3.47 0.65 up from 2021 | 51 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
18Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 4.46Q1 | 4.34 0.46 up from 2021 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
19Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 4.41Q1 | 4.65 0.15 up from 2021 | 183 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
20Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 2.90 0.57 down from 2021 | 119 | 55% | — | ||
21SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.32 1.18 up from 2021 | 43 | 32% | $3,240 | ||
22Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized CommunicationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 3.17 2.10 up from 2021 | 48 | 17% | — | ||
23Research Studies in Music EducationSAGE Publishing · Australia | 4.00Q1 | 2.78 0.74 down from 2021 | 87 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
24International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 2.27 0.04 up from 2021 | 204 | 41% | — | ||
25Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.82Q1 | 3.62 1.00 up from 2021 | 66 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
26Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.98 2.72 up from 2021 | 82 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
27Scientific Study of LiteratureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 1.52 0.66 up from 2021 | 31 | 18% | — | ||
28Journal for the Psychology of Language LearningOAPublisher not listed | 3.72Q1 | 4.82 2.03 up from 2021 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
29International Journal of Music EducationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 2.77 0.22 down from 2021 | 140 | 41% | $3,650 | ||
30Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 2.40 0.69 down from 2021 | 88 | 32% | — | ||
31ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 2.69 0.20 up from 2021 | 249 | 39% | $5,481 | ||
32Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 3.11 1.49 up from 2021 | 87 | 61% | $3,090 | ||
33Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.19 0.27 down from 2021 | 229 | 83% | $3,550 | ||
34International Journal of Art TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 3.89 1.89 up from 2021 | 61 | 45% | — | ||
35Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 3.21Q1 | 3.19 2.21 down from 2021 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
36Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 3.16Q1 | 4.37 2.51 up from 2021 | 97 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of African ArchaeologyBrill · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 1.47 0.21 up from 2021 | 44 | 44% | — | ||
38Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 2.98 0.63 down from 2021 | 93 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
39Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 2.79 0.44 down from 2021 | 573 | 33% | $3,260 | ||
40Intercultural Communication EducationOAAustralia | 2.92Q1 | 2.29 1.17 up from 2021 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Research in Music EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.90Q1 | 2.62 1.17 down from 2021 | 106 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
42NoûsWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 3.40 0.77 down from 2021 | 122 | 56% | $2,900 | ||
43Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 3.09 0.11 up from 2021 | 131 | 33% | — | ||
44Journal of Cultural EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 3.17 0.13 up from 2021 | 91 | 72% | $3,290 | ||
45Lingvisticae InvestigationesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 2.08 1.56 up from 2021 | 37 | 29% | — | ||
46TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 2.76Q1 | 1.44 0.13 up from 2021 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 2.75Q1 | 2.42 0.04 up from 2021 | 94 | 19% | $3,240 | ||
48Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.70Q1 | 2.23 0.59 up from 2021 | 92 | 23% | — | ||
49Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 2.57 0.22 down from 2021 | 146 | 42% | $3,030 | ||
50British Journal of Music EducationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 1.91 0.62 up from 2021 | 54 | 60% | $3,550 |
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
132 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 535
- Window papers (baseline)
- 578,750 +3.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -19.2% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.