Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2023
537 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 537 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.51. The top three are Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, System, and Journal of Second Language Writing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
Up to Social Sciences537 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Research Methods in Applied LinguisticsElsevier BV | 7.90Q1 | 10.26 8.26 up from 2022 | 34 | 40% | $2,000 | ||
2SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.49Q1 | 7.63 1.01 down from 2022 | 465 | 28% | $3,980 | ||
3Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.79Q1 | 5.23 1.44 down from 2022 | 114 | 11% | $3,830 | ||
4Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 3.98 1.74 down from 2022 | 81 | 36% | — | ||
5English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 6.43Q1 | 5.32 0.97 up from 2022 | 108 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
6Australian Journal of LinguisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.05Q1 | 3.18 2.56 up from 2022 | 54 | 50% | — | ||
7Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.64Q1 | 4.03 0.07 up from 2022 | 64 | 88% | — | ||
8Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 3.95 0.18 down from 2022 | 196 | 16% | $3,730 | ||
9Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 8.22 0.09 up from 2022 | 237 | 13% | — | ||
10Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 5.00 0.10 down from 2022 | 369 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
11Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 4.95Q1 | 5.33 0.80 down from 2022 | 156 | 64% | $3,800 | ||
12Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 5.26 0.60 up from 2022 | 108 | 19% | — | ||
13Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 2.92 0.43 up from 2022 | 129 | 40% | — | ||
14Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 3.21 0.31 up from 2022 | 124 | 45% | — | ||
15Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 3.95 0.68 down from 2022 | 171 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
16Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 4.13Q1 | 5.02 0.68 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
17Language Teaching for Young LearnersJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.02Q1 | 3.48 1.66 up from 2022 | 49 | 29% | — | ||
18DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.95Q1 | 1.03 0.17 down from 2022 | 61 | 45% | — | ||
19ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 3.54 0.86 up from 2022 | 227 | 31% | $5,481 | ||
20Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 3.31 0.24 down from 2022 | 139 | 23% | — | ||
21Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 3.67Q1 | 2.39 2.26 down from 2022 | 196 | 59% | $3,570 | ||
22Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 3.27 2.24 up from 2022 | 54 | 74% | $2,900 | ||
23Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 3.00 0.47 down from 2022 | 61 | 56% | $3,650 | ||
24SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 2.14 0.18 down from 2022 | 39 | 78% | $3,240 | ||
25Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.32Q1 | 2.44 1.94 down from 2022 | 73 | 46% | $3,650 | ||
26International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.56 0.29 up from 2022 | 185 | 50% | — | ||
27International Journal of Music EducationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.58 0.20 down from 2022 | 156 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
28Journal for the Psychology of Language LearningOAPublisher not listed | 3.18Q1 | 3.59 1.23 down from 2022 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
29Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 3.10 0.69 up from 2022 | 85 | 24% | — | ||
30Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 3.35 0.55 up from 2022 | 566 | 47% | $3,260 | ||
31TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 3.06Q1 | 1.69 0.25 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
32Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 2.44 0.65 down from 2022 | 142 | 35% | — | ||
33Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 3.48 0.82 up from 2022 | 209 | 74% | $2,900 | ||
34Linguistic TypologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.82Q1 | 2.57 0.44 up from 2022 | 77 | 70% | $0 listed | ||
35Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 3.30 2.68 down from 2022 | 88 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
36Philosophy of Music Education ReviewIndiana University Press · United States | 2.79Q1 | 1.31 0.44 down from 2022 | 43 | 4% | — | ||
37Linguistics VanguardDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.77Q1 | 4.27 2.92 up from 2022 | 211 | 53% | $2,712 | ||
38Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 2.38 0.28 up from 2022 | 66 | 44% | — | ||
39Metal Music StudiesIntellect · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 1.55 1.21 up from 2022 | 82 | 10% | — | ||
40Research Studies in Music EducationSAGE Publishing · Australia | 2.71Q1 | 2.31 0.47 down from 2022 | 96 | 70% | $3,650 | ||
41Language learning & technologyOAUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · United States | 2.70Q1 | 3.40 0.21 up from 2022 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
42Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 1.86 1.13 down from 2022 | 99 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
43Journal of SemanticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 3.92 2.00 up from 2022 | 52 | 81% | $5,137 | ||
44Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 1.58 0.12 up from 2022 | 47 | 54% | $0 listed | ||
45Journal of Audiovisual TranslationOAPublisher not listed | 2.58Q1 | 2.07 1.24 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
46Action Criticism and Theory for Music EducationOAMayDay Group · United States | 2.58Q1 | 1.94 1.25 up from 2022 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · France | 2.57Q1 | 4.00 0.28 up from 2022 | 458 | 54% | $3,380 | ||
48The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 3.66 1.92 up from 2022 | 70 | 44% | — | ||
49The JALT CALL JournalOAAustralia | 2.54Q1 | 2.55 0.42 up from 2022 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
50International Journal of English StudiesOAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 2.52Q1 | 1.04 0.21 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — |
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
123 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 537
- Window papers (baseline)
- 571,888 +0.3% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.835 -11.2% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.