Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Language and Linguistics journal rankings 2022
160 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics has 160 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2021 to 1.10, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.83. The top three are Modern Language Journal, System, and Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching.
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 of Arts and Humanities (13)
160 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 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 | ||
3Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 4.66 0.76 up from 2021 | 88 | 33% | — | ||
4Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.32Q1 | 3.96 1.40 down from 2021 | 69 | 40% | — | ||
5Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 4.63 0.58 up from 2021 | 156 | 63% | $3,550 | ||
6Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 8.13 0.04 up from 2021 | 267 | 14% | — | ||
7Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 5.10 0.11 up from 2021 | 293 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
8Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 2.10 1.39 down from 2021 | 70 | 52% | — | ||
9Studies 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% | — | ||
10Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 4.41Q1 | 4.65 0.15 up from 2021 | 183 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
11Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 2.90 0.57 down from 2021 | 119 | 55% | — | ||
12SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.32 1.18 up from 2021 | 43 | 32% | $3,240 | ||
13Terminology 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% | — | ||
14Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.98 2.72 up from 2021 | 82 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal for the Psychology of Language LearningOAPublisher not listed | 3.72Q1 | 4.82 2.03 up from 2021 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
16Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 2.40 0.69 down from 2021 | 88 | 32% | — | ||
17Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 3.11 1.49 up from 2021 | 87 | 61% | $3,090 | ||
18Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.19 0.27 down from 2021 | 229 | 83% | $3,550 | ||
19Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 3.21Q1 | 3.19 2.21 down from 2021 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
20Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 2.98 0.63 down from 2021 | 93 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 2.79 0.44 down from 2021 | 573 | 33% | $3,260 | ||
22International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 2.75Q1 | 2.42 0.04 up from 2021 | 94 | 19% | $3,240 | ||
23Language & CommunicationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 2.57 0.22 down from 2021 | 146 | 42% | $3,030 | ||
24Language Teaching for Young LearnersJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 1.82 2.35 down from 2021 | 45 | 21% | — | ||
25Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.45Q1 | 1.46 0.10 up from 2021 | 33 | 30% | $0 listed | ||
26The JALT CALL JournalOAAustralia | 2.41Q1 | 2.13 1.03 up from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Spanish Language TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 1.47 0.42 down from 2021 | 49 | 30% | — | ||
28LanguageLinguistic Society of America · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.92 0.59 down from 2021 | 243 | 28% | — | ||
29Linguistics and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.20 0.69 up from 2021 | 91 | 59% | $3,090 | ||
30Constructions and FramesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 0.74 1.35 down from 2021 | 34 | 33% | — | ||
31English Teaching & LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 2.11Q1 | 2.20 0.50 up from 2021 | 82 | 37% | $2,290 | ||
32Discourse Context & MediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 3.34 0.81 up from 2021 | 160 | 44% | $3,770 | ||
33Research on Children and Social InteractionEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 0.89 0.37 down from 2021 | 39 | 57% | — | ||
34MorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 2.86 0.11 up from 2021 | 45 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
35The TranslatorTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 0.80 0.17 down from 2021 | 93 | 44% | — | ||
36Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJOAPublisher not listed | 1.98Q1 | 2.31 0.52 up from 2021 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
37LinguisticsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.97Q1 | 2.28 0.15 up from 2021 | 150 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
38Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 2.13 0.27 down from 2021 | 86 | 68% | $0 listed | ||
39Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human SocialityOAAalborg University · Denmark | 1.87Q1 | 1.48 0.96 down from 2021 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
40PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.50 0.44 down from 2021 | 202 | 34% | — | ||
41Corpus PragmaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.82Q2 | 1.70 0.32 up from 2021 | 66 | 53% | $3,390 | ||
42Instructed Second Language AcquisitionEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 1.00 0.22 down from 2021 | 32 | 13% | — | ||
43Eurasian Journal of Applied LinguisticsOAHacettepe University · Türkiye | 1.76Q2 | 2.43 0.82 up from 2021 | 85 | — | — | ||
44Theoretical LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.76Q2 | 0.48 0.62 down from 2021 | 64 | 44% | $0 listed | ||
45Glossa a journal of general linguisticsOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 1.73 0.06 up from 2021 | 433 | 100% | $551 | ||
46ProbusDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.70Q2 | 0.75 0.86 down from 2021 | 37 | 58% | $0 listed | ||
47Natural Language SemanticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 1.88 1.41 down from 2021 | 36 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
48Translation SpacesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 2.56 0.91 up from 2021 | 45 | 30% | — | ||
49International Journal of English StudiesOAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 1.67Q2 | 0.82 0.15 down from 2021 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
50Language SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q2 | 2.22 0.27 up from 2021 | 113 | 25% | $2,510 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Language and Linguistics highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics160
- Philosophy94
- Literature and Literary Theory73
- Archeology72
- Music33
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts22
- History6
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
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.
55 additional Language and Linguistics 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
- 160
- Window papers (baseline)
- 83,795 +16.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.10 -8.3% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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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.