Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Linguistics and Language journal rankings 2022
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Linguistics and Language has 51 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.41 on 2021 to 1.61, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.17. The top three are TESOL Quarterly, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and Current Issues in Language Planning.
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 Social Sciences (22)
51 ranked journals
Filters
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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1TESOL QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.86Q1 | 4.18 0.06 up from 2021 | 201 | 37% | $2,850 | ||
2Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 6.55 0.44 up from 2021 | 38 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
3Current Issues in Language PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 3.54 0.95 up from 2021 | 81 | 52% | — | ||
4International Journal of Bilingual Education and BilingualismRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 2.93 0.21 down from 2021 | 289 | 36% | — | ||
5Critical Inquiry in Language StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.24Q1 | 3.81 2.26 up from 2021 | 44 | 12% | — | ||
6International Journal of MultilingualismRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 3.04 0.35 down from 2021 | 166 | 34% | — | ||
7Asian EnglishesTaylor & Francis | 4.14Q1 | 1.91 0.21 down from 2021 | 61 | 22% | — | ||
8Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 2.82 0.17 up from 2021 | 431 | 33% | — | ||
9International Multilingual Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.69Q1 | 2.67 0.02 down from 2021 | 69 | 36% | — | ||
10MultilinguaDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.58Q1 | 3.69 0.22 up from 2021 | 128 | 58% | $2,712 | ||
11Journal of Language Identity & EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.55Q1 | 2.25 0.10 up from 2021 | 170 | 20% | — | ||
12Bilingual Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.23Q1 | 2.08 0.27 down from 2021 | 80 | 13% | — | ||
13Linguistics and EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.17Q1 | 2.09 0.52 down from 2021 | 176 | 37% | $2,620 | ||
14Applied LinguisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.09Q2 | 2.74 0.52 up from 2021 | 193 | 30% | $5,481 | ||
15Applied Linguistics ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.77Q2 | 2.12 0.46 up from 2021 | 152 | 36% | $2,712 | ||
16World EnglishesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.66Q2 | 2.44 1.01 up from 2021 | 201 | 62% | $3,570 | ||
17Language PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.62Q2 | 1.88 1.70 down from 2021 | 96 | 32% | $3,090 | ||
18Journal of Multicultural DiscoursesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.47Q2 | 2.48 0.44 up from 2021 | 73 | 26% | — | ||
19Journal of SociolinguisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q2 | 1.58 0.60 down from 2021 | 153 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
20Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantesUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 2.27Q2 | 1.43 0.11 up from 2021 | 73 | 5% | — | ||
21European Journal of Applied LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.16Q2 | 2.05 0.65 up from 2021 | 49 | 62% | $0 listed | ||
22Language and Intercultural CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 2.64 0.86 up from 2021 | 122 | 45% | — | ||
23International Journal of the Sociology of LanguageDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.97Q2 | 1.73 0.53 up from 2021 | 181 | 44% | $2,712 | ||
24Asia-Pacific Language VariationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.74Q2 | 1.62 0.67 up from 2021 | 31 | 9% | — | ||
25Journal of Multilingual Theories and PracticesOAEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 1.41 0.24 down from 2021 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
26Language in SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 1.20 0.44 down from 2021 | 197 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
27Language Culture and SocietyJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.57Q3 | 1.52 0.17 up from 2021 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
28Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyWiley · United States | 1.55Q3 | 1.26 0.19 up from 2021 | 95 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
29Language Variation and ChangeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q3 | 1.64 0.36 up from 2021 | 64 | 80% | $3,550 | ||
30NABE Journal of Research and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.45Q3 | 0.93 0.74 up from 2021 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of English LinguisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.34Q3 | 1.06 1.60 down from 2021 | 43 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
32International Journal of BilingualismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q3 | 2.09 0.04 down from 2021 | 164 | 51% | $3,650 | ||
33English Language and LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q3 | 1.09 0.25 up from 2021 | 98 | 63% | $3,550 | ||
34English TodayCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q3 | 1.23 0.20 up from 2021 | 123 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
35Language Problems & Language PlanningJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.20Q3 | 1.38 0.53 up from 2021 | 66 | 19% | — | ||
36Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsOAUniversity of New Brunswick · Canada | 1.18Q3 | 0.87 0.26 up from 2021 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
37Heritage Language JournalUnited States | 1.06Q3 | 1.18 0.04 down from 2021 | 49 | 5% | — | ||
38Journal of Language ContactOABrill · France | 1.00Q3 | 0.47 0.76 down from 2021 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
39Linguistic Landscape An international journalJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.99Q3 | 1.10 0.10 up from 2021 | 58 | 14% | — | ||
40English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of EnglishJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Germany | 0.95Q4 | 0.50 0.36 down from 2021 | 66 | 8% | — | ||
41Journal of Historical SociolinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.87Q4 | 0.43 0.06 up from 2021 | 61 | 48% | $2,712 | ||
42American SpeechDuke University Press · United States | 0.84Q4 | 0.41 1.57 down from 2021 | 84 | 10% | — | ||
43Linguistic Approaches to BilingualismJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.82Q4 | 1.44 0.18 up from 2021 | 128 | 13% | — | ||
44Language Dynamics and ChangeBrill · Netherlands | 0.81Q4 | 0.85 0.19 down from 2021 | 31 | 67% | — | ||
45Oceanic LinguisticsUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.51Q4 | 0.37 0.17 up from 2021 | 76 | 23% | — | ||
| 0.44Q4 | 0.35 0.09 up from 2021 | 54 | 24% | $2,712 | |||
47Critical multilingualism studiesOADepartment of German Studies · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.48 0.42 up from 2021 | 65 | — | — | ||
| 0.33Q4 | 0.21 0.11 up from 2021 | 50 | 100% | — | |||
49Sociolinguistic StudiesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.25 0.16 down from 2021 | 120 | 64% | — | ||
50AlsicOAMarc Bloch University · France | 0.29Q4 | 0.45 0.07 down from 2021 | 67 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Linguistics and Language highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,389
- Education752
- Political Science and International Relations339
- Communication77
- Gender Studies63
- Safety Research58
- Health54
- Public Administration52
- Linguistics and Language51
- Transportation51
- Urban Studies50
- Law47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography39
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies6
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course 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.
10 additional Linguistics and Language 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
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 20,332 +12.6% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.61 -43.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 43 | 45 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 48 | 51 | 49 | 48 | 50 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,844 | 6,337 | 6,715 | 7,184 | 7,595 | 7,933 | 8,416 | 9,108 | 10,166 | 11,212 | 12,402 | 13,244 | 14,103 | 14,696 | 15,201 | 15,641 | 16,486 | 17,042 | 17,820 | 18,058 | 19,095 | 19,911 | 20,332 | 19,938 | 19,424 | 19,862 | |
| Median OJR | 0.97 | 1.10 | 0.99 | 2.75 | 1.518 | 1.24 | 1.515 | 1.63 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 2.09 | 2.27 | 2.30 | 2.16 | 2.37 | 2.45 | 2.90 | 2.62 | 2.59 | 2.84 | 2.53 | 2.02 | 1.61 | 1.87 | 1.86 | 2.14 |
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.