Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Field ranking · 2025
Arts and Humanities journal rankings 2025
536 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities has 536 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 6, so the intro names none.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #18 of 536Journal of English-Medium InstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 7.62Q1 | 1.70 0.72 down from 2024 | 38 | 27% | — | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #9 of 536Computer Assisted Language LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.52Q1 | 9.62 0.75 up from 2024 | 197 | 16% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #8 of 536SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.11Q1 | 9.21 2.17 up from 2024 | 584 | 36% | $3,980 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #1 and #40 of 536Action Criticism and Theory for Music EducationOAMayDay Group · United States | 6.86Q1 | 1.90 1.47 up from 2024 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 5; likely between #1 and #18 of 536Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.45Q1 | 6.85 2.05 up from 2024 | 136 | 30% | $3,830 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #1 and #61 of 536Research Methods in Applied LinguisticsElsevier BV | 6.39Q1 | 6.93 6.32 down from 2024 | 156 | 58% | $2,000 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #3 and #23 of 536Language TeachingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 5.89 0.75 up from 2024 | 145 | 77% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #4 and #18 of 536Language and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.67Q1 | 3.69 0.23 up from 2024 | 163 | 40% | — | ||
Rank 9; likely between #4 and #21 of 536Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 5.45Q1 | 4.34 0.16 up from 2024 | 153 | 72% | $3,800 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #24 of 536Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingOADepartment of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland | 5.32Q1 | 5.59 0.10 down from 2024 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 11; likely between #5 and #22 of 536Language Culture and CurriculumRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.31Q1 | 3.47 0.41 up from 2024 | 83 | 26% | — | ||
Rank 12; likely between #5 and #22 of 536Journal of English for Academic PurposesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 4.34 0.19 up from 2024 | 218 | 37% | $3,730 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #6 and #27 of 536English for Specific PurposesElsevier BV · United States | 4.89Q1 | 4.07 0.06 up from 2024 | 124 | 31% | $3,590 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #1 and #199 of 536DiachronicaJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.89Q1 | 1.25 0.13 down from 2024 | 60 | 44% | — | ||
Rank 15; likely between #2 and #63 of 536TESL Canada JournalOACanada | 4.71Q1 | 2.14 0.07 up from 2024 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #26 of 536Language Teaching ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 4.72 0.21 up from 2024 | 370 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #9 and #30 of 536ELT JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 4.19 1.47 up from 2024 | 178 | 43% | $5,481 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 18; likely between #2 and #164 of 536Asian Languages and LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.32Q1 | 0.14 0.01 down from 2024 | 41 | 16% | — | ||
Rank 19; likely between #6 and #47 of 536Innovation in Language Learning and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 6.69 0.24 up from 2024 | 160 | 24% | — | ||
Rank 20; likely between #12 and #35 of 536International Journal of Applied LinguisticsWiley · Norway | 4.13Q1 | 4.46 2.43 up from 2024 | 232 | 53% | $3,240 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #5 and #57 of 536The Australian Journal of Language and LiteracySpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.98Q1 | 2.09 0.03 up from 2024 | 67 | 77% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #2 and #103 of 536Applied PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.92Q1 | 1.59 0.30 up from 2024 | 33 | 20% | — | ||
Rank 23; likely between #13 and #44 of 536Language AwarenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 3.23 0.73 up from 2024 | 92 | 29% | — | ||
Rank 24; likely between #10 and #54 of 536Journal of Politeness ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.81Q1 | 2.36 0.98 up from 2024 | 59 | 91% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 25; likely between #8 and #73 of 536Arts Education Policy ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.72Q1 | 1.37 0.09 up from 2024 | 68 | 48% | — | ||
Rank 26; likely between #14 and #54 of 536Language Learning JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 3.09 0.29 up from 2024 | 137 | 50% | — | ||
Rank 27; likely between #3 and #168 of 536Second Language Teacher EducationEquinox Publishing | 3.49Q1 | 1.30 2.20 down from 2024 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
Rank 28; likely between #20 and #48 of 536International Journal of Heritage StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 2.46 0.22 down from 2024 | 268 | 49% | — | ||
Rank 29; likely between #20 and #54 of 536Studies in Second Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 5.41 0.75 up from 2024 | 180 | 94% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #2 and #276 of 536Journal of English for Research Publication PurposesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 1.38 0.34 up from 2024 | 36 | 17% | — | ||
Rank 31; likely between #15 and #72 of 536Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.24Q1 | 2.97 0.05 down from 2024 | 58 | 77% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #8 and #150 of 536Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language LearningOADe Gruyter | 3.19Q1 | 5.72 2.22 up from 2024 | 61 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 33; likely between #16 and #77 of 536Classroom DiscourseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 2.53 0.03 up from 2024 | 57 | 68% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #23 and #60 of 536Journal of Literacy ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.13Q1 | 1.81 0.68 down from 2024 | 65 | 60% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #15 and #106 of 536Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language EducationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 0.65 1.03 down from 2024 | 53 | 50% | — | ||
Rank 36; likely between #9 and #202 of 536Journal of Historical PragmaticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.11Q1 | 1.36 1.17 up from 2024 | 61 | 9% | — | ||
Rank 37; likely between #13 and #97 of 536The Historic Environment Policy & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 1.85 0.98 down from 2024 | 70 | 29% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #20 and #75 of 536Discourse Context & MediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 3.30 0.40 down from 2024 | 103 | 52% | $3,770 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 39; likely between #31 and #49 of 536Heritage ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 5.53 0.96 up from 2024 | 887 | — | $2,090 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 40; likely between #25 and #64 of 536Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 2.15 1.47 down from 2024 | 182 | 71% | $2,900 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #21 and #78 of 536Music Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 1.46 0.48 down from 2024 | 139 | 50% | — | ||
Rank 42; likely between #19 and #79 of 536Research Studies in Music EducationSAGE Publishing · Australia | 2.86Q1 | 2.23 0.14 down from 2024 | 91 | 61% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #13 and #140 of 536Journal of English as a Lingua FrancaDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.81Q1 | 1.44 0.15 down from 2024 | 57 | 29% | $2,712 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #21 and #89 of 536LiteracyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 2.46 0.54 up from 2024 | 102 | 81% | $3,470 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #32 and #64 of 536Journal of PragmaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.82 0.68 up from 2024 | 432 | 45% | $3,260 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #26 and #83 of 536Museum Management and CuratorshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 2.80 0.66 up from 2024 | 147 | 37% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #12 and #326 of 536Philosophy of Music Education ReviewIndiana University Press · United States | 2.69Q1 | 0.70 0.37 up from 2024 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
Rank 48; likely between #19 and #127 of 536Journal of Audiovisual TranslationOAPublisher not listed | 2.66Q1 | 1.53 0.37 up from 2024 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #33 and #73 of 536IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.62Q1 | 2.88 0.13 up from 2024 | 234 | 31% | $2,712 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 50; likely between #30 and #106 of 536Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJOAPublisher not listed | 2.51Q1 | 2.69 0.67 up from 2024 | 172 | 100% | — |
11 Arts and Humanities journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
Full rising list for Arts and Humanities
- 1Fashion Style & Popular CultureMuseology+173% vs groupOJR 0.25 → 0.61range +42% to +424%
- 2IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingLanguage and Linguistics+108% vs groupOJR 1.39 → 2.62range +34% to +223%
- 3Computer Assisted Language LearningLanguage and Linguistics+62% vs groupOJR 5.11 → 7.52range +20% to +119%
- 4TopoiPhilosophy+90% vs groupOJR 0.81 → 1.38range +20% to +200%
- 5HispaniaLiterature and Literary Theory+167% vs groupOJR 0.15 → 0.35range +14% to +527%
- 6Heritage ScienceOAArcheology+37% vs groupOJR 2.40 → 2.99range +13% to +67%
- 7HeritageOAArcheology+34% vs groupOJR 1.65 → 2.01range +11% to +62%
- 8Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchPhilosophy+54% vs groupOJR 1.33 → 1.86range +3.1% to +130%
- 9ELT JournalLiterature and Literary Theory+43% vs groupOJR 3.44 → 4.45range +2.3% to +99%
- 10Discourse Context & MediaLanguage and Linguistics+60% vs groupOJR 2.08 → 3.02range +1.8% to +151%
- 11European Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy+66% vs groupOJR 0.84 → 1.27range +1.5% to +172%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -85% to +588% (ratio scale)
16 Arts and Humanities journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e AplicadaOALiterature and Literary Theory-70% vs groupOJR 1.10 → 0.30range -84% to -42%
- 2Internet ArchaeologyOAArcheology-65% vs groupOJR 0.61 → 0.19range -81% to -34%
- 3Glossa a journal of general linguisticsOALanguage and Linguistics-48% vs groupOJR 1.70 → 0.80range -62% to -28%
- 4Technology and CultureHistory and Philosophy of Science-59% vs groupOJR 0.52 → 0.20range -77% to -27%
- 5Foreign Language AnnalsLanguage and Linguistics-53% vs groupOJR 4.41 → 1.89range -70% to -26%
- 6Bulletin of the history of medicineHistory and Philosophy of Science-60% vs groupOJR 0.60 → 0.22range -79% to -24%
- 7Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaOALanguage and Linguistics-50% vs groupOJR 0.40 → 0.18range -67% to -23%
- 8CentaurusHistory and Philosophy of Science-53% vs groupOJR 0.69 → 0.30range -73% to -19%
- 9The British Journal for the Philosophy of ScienceHistory and Philosophy of Science-47% vs groupOJR 2.04 → 0.98range -66% to -18%
- 10Open Journal of Modern LinguisticsOALanguage and Linguistics-44% vs groupOJR 0.62 → 0.32range -64% to -14%
- 11LanguageLanguage and Linguistics-47% vs groupOJR 2.21 → 1.06range -68% to -13%
- 12International Journal of Music EducationMusic-39% vs groupOJR 3.64 → 2.01range -60% to -7.5%
- 13Environment and HistoryHistory and Philosophy of Science-47% vs groupOJR 0.48 → 0.23range -70% to -7.4%
- 14FormAkademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikkOAMuseology-46% vs groupOJR 0.36 → 0.17range -69% to -6.3%
- 15Modern Language JournalLanguage and Linguistics-32% vs groupOJR 8.91 → 5.45range -53% to -2.3%
- 16Language & CommunicationLanguage and Linguistics-33% vs groupOJR 2.69 → 1.63range -55% to -1.9%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -86% to +603% (ratio scale)
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
91 additional Arts and Humanities journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 536
- Window papers (baseline)
- 567,751 -1.9% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.77 -5.6% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11Comparison-group list (11)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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 | 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.