Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2022
73 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Literature and Literary Theory has 73 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 2.01 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Culture and Curriculum, and English for Specific Purposes.
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)
73 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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1Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 7.88Q1 | 6.67 0.54 up from 2021 | 105 | 12% | $3,830 | ||
2Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 5.72 2.39 up from 2021 | 82 | 23% | — | ||
3English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 5.34Q1 | 4.35 0.49 up from 2021 | 95 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
4Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 4.13 0.24 up from 2021 | 197 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
5Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.79Q1 | 4.38 0.70 up from 2021 | 78 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
6Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 2.49 0.67 down from 2021 | 128 | 37% | — | ||
7Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 3.47 0.65 up from 2021 | 51 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.82Q1 | 3.62 1.00 up from 2021 | 66 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
9Scientific Study of LiteratureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 1.52 0.66 up from 2021 | 31 | 18% | — | ||
10ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 2.69 0.20 up from 2021 | 249 | 39% | $5,481 | ||
11Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 3.16Q1 | 4.37 2.51 up from 2021 | 97 | 11% | — | ||
12Intercultural Communication EducationOAAustralia | 2.92Q1 | 2.29 1.17 up from 2021 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
13TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 2.76Q1 | 1.44 0.13 up from 2021 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
14Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.09 0.15 down from 2021 | 120 | 6% | $3,860 | ||
15European Journal of Language PolicyLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 0.84 0.59 down from 2021 | 41 | 12% | — | ||
16Apples - Journal of Applied Language StudiesOAUniversity of Jyväskylä · Finland | 2.24Q1 | 1.22 0.09 up from 2021 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
17International Journal of TESOL StudiesOAUnited Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.29 0.14 down from 2021 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
18Australian Journal of Applied LinguisticsOAAustralia | 2.04Q1 | 1.79 0.51 up from 2021 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
19LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 1.72 0.78 down from 2021 | 62 | 40% | $3,470 | ||
20Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 1.91Q2 | 1.33 0.07 down from 2021 | 91 | 3% | — | ||
21Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.90Q2 | 0.96 0.49 down from 2021 | 144 | 0% | — | ||
22Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated LearningOAUniversity of La Sabana · Colombia | 1.86Q2 | 1.46 0.11 down from 2021 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.79Q2 | 0.82 0.34 down from 2021 | 53 | 15% | — | ||
24English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 1.78Q2 | 1.21 0.06 up from 2021 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
25Language ValueOACarlos V · Spain | 1.62Q2 | 0.96 0.09 down from 2021 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
26The EuroCALL ReviewOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 1.57Q2 | 2.04 1.12 up from 2021 | 39 | — | — | ||
27Research in Corpus LinguisticsOASpain | 1.50Q2 | 1.50 0.25 up from 2021 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
28IbéricaOAAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos · Spain | 1.37Q2 | 1.06 0.62 up from 2021 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
29Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas ExtranjerasOARovira i Virgili University · Spain | 1.36Q2 | 1.08 0.45 up from 2021 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
30College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.03 0.06 down from 2021 | 108 | 0% | — | ||
31The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.31Q2 | 0.98 0.24 down from 2021 | 56 | 84% | $3,190 | ||
32Language Learning in Higher EducationDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 0.83 0.34 up from 2021 | 89 | 47% | $2,712 | ||
33Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.16 0.06 down from 2021 | 53 | 43% | $2,712 | ||
34Journal of Literary EducationOAServei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa, Universitat de València · Spain | 1.23Q2 | 1.39 1.29 up from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
35DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 1.10Q2 | 0.60 0.33 down from 2021 | 126 | 100% | — | ||
36Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.82 0.13 up from 2021 | 90 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
37Multimodal CommunicationDe Gruyter · New Zealand | 1.02Q2 | 1.06 0.37 up from 2021 | 43 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
38AILA ReviewJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.01Q3 | 0.80 0.20 down from 2021 | 34 | 39% | — | ||
39Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LiteratureOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 0.99Q3 | 0.96 0.58 up from 2021 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
40English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 0.92 0.05 up from 2021 | 145 | 34% | — | ||
41Journal of Cultural AnalyticsOACanada | 0.82Q3 | 1.15 0.17 down from 2021 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
42Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.77Q3 | 0.71 0.04 up from 2021 | 236 | 100% | — | ||
43Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil | 0.76Q3 | 1.23 0.44 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
44Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.71Q3 | 1.00 0.27 down from 2021 | 94 | 31% | — | ||
45Language and LiteracyOALanguage and Literacy Researchers of Canada · Canada | 0.62Q3 | 0.66 0.05 up from 2021 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
46EliaOAEditorial Universidad de Sevilla · Spain | 0.61Q3 | 0.75 0.61 up from 2021 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
47EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and LanguagesOAE-JournALL · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.53 0.19 up from 2021 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
48ESP TodayOAUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Economics · Serbia | 0.57Q3 | 0.78 0.34 down from 2021 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
49International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.62 0.43 down from 2021 | 36 | 13% | — | ||
50Digital Studies / Le champ numériqueOAOpen Library of Humanities · Canada | 0.50Q3 | 0.64 0.08 up from 2021 | 49 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Literature and Literary Theory 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.
21 additional Literature and Literary Theory 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
- 73
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,516 +4.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.02 -17.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 60 | 64 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 72 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,152 | 41,293 | 44,360 | 47,693 | 50,568 | 53,724 | 56,806 | 60,437 | 65,031 | 69,362 | 74,882 | 79,853 | 84,459 | 87,431 | 89,177 | 91,543 | 94,470 | 97,026 | 99,068 | 101,727 | 103,853 | 106,881 | 106,516 | 103,525 | 100,705 | 102,959 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.91 | 1.05 | 0.99 | 1.12 | 1.014 | 1.18 | 1.10 | 0.94 | 0.901 | 1.26 | 1.31 | 1.49 | 1.303 | 1.299 | 1.335 | 1.11 | 1.339 | 1.35 | 1.24 | 1.51 | 1.010 | 1.02 | 0.93 | 0.903 | 0.89 |
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.