Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2024
539 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 539 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.43. The top three are Journal of English-Medium Instruction, System, and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
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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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Journal of English-Medium InstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 6.83Q1 | 2.42 0.86 down from 2023 | 31 | 33% | — | ||
2SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 7.04 0.59 down from 2023 | 468 | 32% | $3,980 | ||
3Research Methods in Applied LinguisticsElsevier BV | 6.56Q1 | 13.26 2.99 up from 2023 | 79 | 67% | $2,000 | ||
4Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.19Q1 | 4.80 0.44 down from 2023 | 136 | 31% | $3,830 | ||
5Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 3.06 0.92 down from 2023 | 73 | 52% | — | ||
6Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.75Q1 | 8.88 0.66 up from 2023 | 225 | 27% | — | ||
7Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 5.15 1.19 up from 2023 | 148 | 80% | $3,550 | ||
8Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 5.59Q1 | 4.18 1.16 down from 2023 | 153 | 64% | $3,800 | ||
9English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 5.18Q1 | 4.01 1.31 down from 2023 | 117 | 24% | $3,590 | ||
10Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 4.15 0.20 up from 2023 | 199 | 25% | $3,730 | ||
11Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.12Q1 | 6.46 1.20 up from 2023 | 107 | 24% | — | ||
12Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 3.46 0.54 up from 2023 | 136 | 42% | — | ||
13Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 4.51 0.50 down from 2023 | 392 | 43% | $3,900 | ||
14Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.32Q1 | 3.03 1.00 down from 2023 | 57 | 80% | — | ||
15ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 2.72 0.82 down from 2023 | 203 | 28% | $5,481 | ||
16International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 2.69 0.13 up from 2023 | 216 | 58% | — | ||
17Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 2.50 0.60 down from 2023 | 97 | 40% | — | ||
18Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 4.16Q1 | 5.69 0.67 up from 2023 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
19Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 2.80 0.41 down from 2023 | 135 | 40% | — | ||
20The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 2.83 0.83 down from 2023 | 66 | 56% | — | ||
21Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.40Q1 | 2.49 0.05 up from 2023 | 68 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
22Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 1.94 1.36 down from 2023 | 134 | 57% | — | ||
23Research Studies in Music EducationSAGE Publishing · Australia | 3.26Q1 | 2.37 0.06 up from 2023 | 101 | 88% | $3,650 | ||
24TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 3.19Q1 | 2.07 0.38 up from 2023 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
25American Philosophical QuarterlyUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 3.16Q1 | 5.67 2.77 up from 2023 | 89 | 43% | — | ||
26International Journal of Music EducationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 1.89 0.69 down from 2023 | 191 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
27Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 3.62 0.14 up from 2023 | 203 | 70% | $2,900 | ||
28NoûsWiley · United States | 2.96Q1 | 3.56 1.17 up from 2023 | 115 | 81% | $2,900 | ||
29Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual ContextsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 1.57 0.24 down from 2023 | 56 | 14% | — | ||
30Written CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 3.02 0.02 up from 2023 | 76 | 52% | $3,650 | ||
31SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 1.96 0.17 down from 2023 | 43 | 66% | $3,240 | ||
32Discourse StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 1.97 0.12 up from 2023 | 108 | 45% | $3,650 | ||
33Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 1.68 0.58 up from 2023 | 43 | 52% | — | ||
34EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.70Q1 | 2.90 0.05 up from 2023 | 77 | 17% | — | ||
35Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 4.66 0.44 up from 2023 | 215 | 92% | $3,550 | ||
36Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 2.14 1.21 down from 2023 | 563 | 49% | $3,260 | ||
37Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 2.50 0.12 up from 2023 | 61 | 70% | — | ||
38Journal for the Psychology of Language LearningOAPublisher not listed | 2.61Q1 | 2.11 1.49 down from 2023 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
39DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 1.38 0.35 up from 2023 | 48 | 47% | — | ||
40Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 2.14 0.31 down from 2023 | 146 | 48% | — | ||
41Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 1.59 0.78 up from 2023 | 53 | 26% | $2,712 | ||
42Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language LearningOADe Gruyter | 2.55Q1 | 3.50 0.32 up from 2023 | 48 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
43Foreign Language AnnalsWiley · United States | 2.54Q1 | 1.81 0.58 down from 2023 | 199 | 68% | $3,570 | ||
44LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.92 0.08 up from 2023 | 95 | 84% | $3,470 | ||
45Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.62 0.55 up from 2023 | 78 | 33% | — | ||
46Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.51Q1 | 1.28 0.84 down from 2023 | 85 | 14% | — | ||
47Language TestingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 3.03 0.28 down from 2023 | 102 | 60% | $3,900 | ||
48Language Typology and UniversalsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 1.63 0.78 up from 2023 | 66 | 40% | $2,712 | ||
49Built HeritageOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 2.41Q1 | 2.67 0.87 up from 2023 | 76 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
50International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 2.40Q1 | 2.03 0.20 down from 2023 | 121 | 58% | $3,240 |
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
112 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 539
- Window papers (baseline)
- 560,239 -4.1% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.81 -8.2% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.