Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Linguistics and Language journal rankings 2024
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Linguistics and Language has 48 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.86 against 1.00, unchanged on 2023. A journal needs OJR 3.35 to reach Q1. The top three are Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and TESOL Quarterly.
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 of Social Sciences (22)
48 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 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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1Critical Inquiry in Language StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.32Q1 | 3.38 2.25 down from 2023 | 66 | 36% | — | ||
2Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 4.77 1.32 up from 2023 | 544 | 40% | — | ||
3TESOL QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.80Q1 | 4.33 0.42 up from 2023 | 253 | 69% | $2,850 | ||
4Educational LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.71Q1 | 2.69 1.24 down from 2023 | 36 | 83% | $2,712 | ||
5Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 5.35 1.51 up from 2023 | 44 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
6Applied LinguisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 4.25 0.52 up from 2023 | 210 | 49% | $5,481 | ||
7International Multilingual Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.41Q1 | 2.78 1.05 up from 2023 | 64 | 29% | — | ||
8Applied Linguistics ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 4.28Q1 | 4.77 1.51 up from 2023 | 183 | 52% | $2,712 | ||
9Journal of Language Identity & EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.44Q1 | 2.56 0.35 up from 2023 | 189 | 22% | — | ||
10Asian EnglishesTaylor & Francis | 3.40Q1 | 2.54 0.15 up from 2023 | 92 | 21% | — | ||
11Linguistics and EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.39Q1 | 2.95 0.51 up from 2023 | 222 | 47% | $2,620 | ||
12Current Issues in Language PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 2.46 0.14 up from 2023 | 80 | 38% | — | ||
13International Journal of MultilingualismRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.27Q2 | 2.47 0.28 down from 2023 | 216 | 39% | — | ||
14International Journal of Bilingual Education and BilingualismRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.25Q2 | 2.69 0.07 down from 2023 | 219 | 45% | — | ||
15MultilinguaDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.22Q2 | 3.31 1.64 up from 2023 | 91 | 50% | $2,712 | ||
16Language PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.85Q2 | 2.41 1.00 up from 2023 | 95 | 44% | $3,090 | ||
17Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyWiley · United States | 2.83Q2 | 1.10 0.69 down from 2023 | 85 | 62% | $3,400 | ||
18Language and Intercultural CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.65Q2 | 2.66 0.25 down from 2023 | 145 | 45% | — | ||
19Bilingual Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.64Q2 | 1.18 0.66 down from 2023 | 68 | 16% | — | ||
20International Journal of the Sociology of LanguageDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.40Q2 | 1.40 0.26 down from 2023 | 172 | 28% | $2,712 | ||
21Journal of SociolinguisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q2 | 1.76 0.36 up from 2023 | 150 | 58% | $3,730 | ||
22World EnglishesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q2 | 2.13 0.32 up from 2023 | 95 | 71% | $3,570 | ||
23European Journal of Applied LinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.03Q2 | 1.22 0.10 up from 2023 | 55 | 58% | $0 listed | ||
24Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsOAUniversity of New Brunswick · Canada | 1.86Q2 | 1.47 0.30 up from 2023 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
25Language in SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.86Q3 | 2.14 0.53 up from 2023 | 178 | 47% | $3,550 | ||
26Journal of English LinguisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.82Q3 | 1.28 0.22 down from 2023 | 41 | 59% | $3,650 | ||
27Language Culture and SocietyJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.77Q3 | 1.09 0.06 down from 2023 | 32 | 21% | — | ||
28Journal of Language ContactOABrill · France | 1.71Q3 | 2.29 1.08 up from 2023 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
29Linguistic Landscape An international journalJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.67Q3 | 1.02 0.18 down from 2023 | 67 | 38% | — | ||
30Oceanic LinguisticsUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 1.65Q3 | 1.32 1.20 up from 2023 | 87 | 18% | — | ||
31Journal of Multilingual Theories and PracticesOAEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.65Q3 | 1.00 0.34 up from 2023 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
32Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantesUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 1.62Q3 | 1.22 0.59 up from 2023 | 63 | 5% | — | ||
33Journal of Multicultural DiscoursesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.60Q3 | 1.93 0.06 up from 2023 | 61 | 38% | — | ||
34English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of EnglishJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Germany | 1.47Q3 | 1.58 0.43 up from 2023 | 58 | 33% | — | ||
35International Journal of BilingualismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.41Q3 | 1.85 0.10 up from 2023 | 216 | 49% | $3,650 | ||
36Language Variation and ChangeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.30Q3 | 1.43 0.16 up from 2023 | 63 | 91% | $3,550 | ||
| 1.02Q4 | 0.98 0.55 up from 2023 | 64 | 30% | $2,712 | |||
38Heritage Language JournalUnited States | 0.99Q4 | 0.92 0.13 up from 2023 | 41 | 15% | — | ||
39Linguistic Approaches to BilingualismJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.98Q4 | 1.87 0.35 down from 2023 | 103 | 36% | — | ||
40English Language and LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.91Q4 | 0.70 0.31 down from 2023 | 92 | 58% | $3,550 | ||
41Language Problems & Language PlanningJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.81Q4 | 0.84 0.42 up from 2023 | 58 | 13% | — | ||
42Journal of Linguistic GeographyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.78Q4 | 0.85 0.42 up from 2023 | 30 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
43English TodayCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.74Q4 | 0.72 0.16 up from 2023 | 97 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
44American SpeechDuke University Press · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.57 0.09 down from 2023 | 79 | 21% | — | ||
45Journal of Historical SociolinguisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.42Q4 | 0.33 0.12 up from 2023 | 53 | 50% | $2,712 | ||
46Sociolinguistic StudiesEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.28 0.02 up from 2023 | 115 | 10% | — | ||
47AlsicOAMarc Bloch University · France | 0.15Q4 | 0.31 0.13 up from 2023 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
48Publication of the American Dialect SocietyDuke University Press · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.13 0.07 up from 2023 | 32 | 14% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Linguistics and Language highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
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.
13 additional Linguistics and Language 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
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 19,424 -2.4% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.86 -7.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
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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.