Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Literature and Literary Theory journal rankings 2023
73 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Literature and Literary Theory has 73 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2022 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Culture and Curriculum, and English for Specific Purposes.
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 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 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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1Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.79Q1 | 5.23 1.44 down from 2022 | 114 | 11% | $3,830 | ||
2Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 3.98 1.74 down from 2022 | 81 | 36% | — | ||
3English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 6.43Q1 | 5.32 0.97 up from 2022 | 108 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
4Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 3.95 0.18 down from 2022 | 196 | 16% | $3,730 | ||
5Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 2.92 0.43 up from 2022 | 129 | 40% | — | ||
6ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 3.54 0.86 up from 2022 | 227 | 31% | $5,481 | ||
7Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 3.00 0.47 down from 2022 | 61 | 56% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.32Q1 | 2.44 1.94 down from 2022 | 73 | 46% | $3,650 | ||
9TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 3.06Q1 | 1.69 0.25 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
10Computers & composition/Computers and compositionElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 3.04 0.05 down from 2022 | 102 | 12% | $3,860 | ||
11Intercultural Communication EducationOAAustralia | 2.06Q1 | 1.00 1.29 down from 2022 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
12LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.84 0.12 up from 2022 | 66 | 67% | $3,470 | ||
13Journal of Business and Technical CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.32 1.30 down from 2022 | 65 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
14Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated LearningOAUniversity of La Sabana · Colombia | 1.73Q1 | 1.08 0.38 down from 2022 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
15Australian Journal of Applied LinguisticsOAAustralia | 1.69Q1 | 0.74 1.04 down from 2022 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
16AILA ReviewJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 1.60 0.80 up from 2022 | 41 | 7% | — | ||
17Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 0.81 0.35 down from 2022 | 53 | 28% | $2,712 | ||
18IbéricaOAAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos · Spain | 1.63Q1 | 1.62 0.56 up from 2022 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
19Language ValueOACarlos V · Spain | 1.62Q1 | 0.81 0.15 down from 2022 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
20The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.60Q2 | 1.66 0.68 up from 2022 | 65 | 71% | $3,190 | ||
21Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.57Q2 | 1.10 0.28 up from 2022 | 54 | 19% | — | ||
22Children s Literature in EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.28 0.45 up from 2022 | 120 | 52% | $3,190 | ||
23Language Learning in Higher EducationDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.52Q2 | 1.14 0.31 up from 2022 | 96 | 35% | $2,712 | ||
24Research in the Teaching of EnglishRoutledge · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.45 0.12 up from 2022 | 90 | 3% | — | ||
25International Journal of TESOL StudiesOAUnited Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 0.96 1.34 down from 2022 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of English for Research Publication PurposesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 1.87 0.68 up from 2022 | 38 | 31% | — | ||
27Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas ExtranjerasOARovira i Virgili University · Spain | 1.37Q2 | 1.51 0.42 up from 2022 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
28ESP TodayOAUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Economics · Serbia | 1.27Q2 | 2.69 1.91 up from 2022 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
29Technical Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.27Q2 | 1.81 2.56 down from 2022 | 93 | 9% | — | ||
30Apples - Journal of Applied Language StudiesOAUniversity of Jyväskylä · Finland | 1.24Q2 | 1.08 0.15 down from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Cultural AnalyticsOACanada | 1.19Q2 | 0.96 0.20 down from 2022 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
32Multimodal CommunicationDe Gruyter · New Zealand | 1.13Q2 | 1.25 0.19 up from 2022 | 47 | 35% | $2,712 | ||
33English EducationNational Council of Teachers of English | 1.06Q2 | 0.66 0.56 down from 2022 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
34European Journal of Language PolicyLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 0.80 0.04 down from 2022 | 44 | 6% | — | ||
35College Composition and CommunicationNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 1.02Q2 | 0.66 0.37 down from 2022 | 112 | 2% | — | ||
36Research in Corpus LinguisticsOASpain | 0.94Q2 | 1.79 0.29 up from 2022 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
37Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LiteratureOAAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 0.93Q2 | 0.74 0.22 down from 2022 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
38Language ArtsNational Council of Teachers of English · United States | 0.88Q3 | 0.92 0.04 down from 2022 | 163 | 0% | — | ||
39English in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 0.92no change | 108 | 54% | — | ||
40Linguagem em (Dis)cursoOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil | 0.76Q3 | 0.31 0.09 up from 2022 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
41EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and LanguagesOAE-JournALL · United States | 0.73Q3 | 0.94 0.41 up from 2022 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
42Narrative InquiryJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.73Q3 | 0.61 0.39 down from 2022 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
43DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.71Q3 | 0.62 0.03 up from 2022 | 155 | 100% | — | ||
44Trabalhos em Linguística AplicadaOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.69Q3 | 0.44 0.27 down from 2022 | 214 | 100% | — | ||
45Revista Brasileira de Lingüística AplicadaOAFederal University of Minas Gerais · Brazil | 0.67Q3 | 0.79 0.44 down from 2022 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
46English as a Foreign Language International JournalPublisher not listed | 0.58Q3 | 0.53 0.21 up from 2022 | 47 | — | — | ||
47Multimodality & SocietySAGE Publishing | 0.57Q3 | 0.88 0.12 up from 2022 | 59 | 56% | $3,400 | ||
48Journal of Literary EducationOAServei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa, Universitat de València · Spain | 0.54Q3 | 0.55 0.84 down from 2022 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Folklore ResearchIndiana University Press · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.26 0.22 down from 2022 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
50Language and LiteracyOALanguage and Literacy Researchers of Canada · Canada | 0.48Q3 | 0.61 0.05 down from 2022 | 51 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Literature and Literary Theory highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics164
- Philosophy95
- Literature and Literary Theory73
- Archeology72
- Music33
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts20
- History5
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
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.
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 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
- 73
- Window papers (baseline)
- 103,525 -0.3% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -38.5% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 |
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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.