New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Literature & Language

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 System46
2 Telecommunications Policy36
3 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development26
- International Journal of Advertising26
5 Media Culture & Society25
- TESOL Quarterly25
- Journal of Advertising25
8 Public Relations Review24
9 Applied Linguistics23
10 Journal of Communication22
11 Modern Language Journal21
12 RELC Journal20
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition20
- Communication Research20
- Language Teaching20
16 Journal of Social and Personal Relationships19
- Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools19
18 Language Learning18
19 Public Opinion Quarterly17
- Journal of Pragmatics17
21 IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching16
22 Brain and Language15
23 Journal of Communication Disorders14
- Human Communication Research14
- Language Testing14
- Information Society14
- Journal of Advertising Research14
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research14
- Theory Culture & Society14
- Applied Psycholinguistics14
31 Lingua13
- Poetics13
- Aphasiology13
34 European Journal of Communication12
- Language in Society12
- Foreign Language Annals12
- Journal of Phonetics12
38 Language & Communication11
- Language Sciences11
- Journal of Fluency Disorders11
- Communications-European Journal of Communication Research11
42 Journal of Language and Social Psychology10
- Mind & Language10
- Journal of Child Language10
45 Linguistic Inquiry9
- Second Language Research9
- Communication Monographs9
- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication9
- South Atlantic Quarterly9
- First Language9
51 Linguistics8
- Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication8
- Language and Speech8
- Linguistics and Philosophy8
- Critical Inquiry8
56 Topics in Language Disorders7
- Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics7
- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory7
- Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies7
- Rhetoric Society Quarterly7
- English World-Wide7
- Quarterly Journal of Speech7
- English Today7
64 American Literature6
- Childrens Literature in Education6
- Journal of American Folklore6
- Diachronica6
- Journal of Linguistics6
69 Journal of the International Phonetic Association5
- Nordic Journal of Linguistics5
- Poetics Today5
- Folia Linguistica5
- Studies in Language5
- Theoretical Linguistics5
- Canadian Modern Language Review-Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes5
- Journal of Semantics5
- Langue Francaise5
- Linguistic Review5
- American Speech5
- Canadian Journal of Linguistics-Revue Canadienne de Linguistique5
- Phonetica5
- English Studies5
- Journal of English Linguistics5
84 LiLi-Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik4
- Meta4
- Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America4
- Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction4
- Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada4
- English Studies in Africa4
- Studia Linguistica4
- Style4
- Theatre Research International4
- Transactions of the Philological Society4
- Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archaologie4
- Zeitschrift fuer Germanistische Linguistik4
- Zeitschrift fuer Slawistik4
- Language Problems & Language Planning4
- Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture4
- Names-A Journal of Onomastics4
- Neohelicon4
- Comparative Literature Studies4
- Folklore4
- International Journal of American Linguistics4
104 Journal of Popular Culture3
- Melanges de la Casa de Velazquez3
- Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur3
- Bulletin Hispanique3
- Neophilologus3
- New German Critique3
- Classical Quarterly3
- Orbis Litterarum3
- Paragraph3
- Philosophy and Rhetoric3
- Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte3
- Shakespeare Quarterly3
- Internationales Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur3
- Tydskrif vir Letterkunde3
- Journal of Hellenic Studies3
- Chaucer Review3
- Novel-A Forum on Fiction3
- Oxford German Studies3
- Revista de Filologia Espanola3
- Revista Iberoamericana3
- RILCE-Revista de Filologia Hispanica3
- Esprit3
- Forum Italicum3
- German Quarterly3
- Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik3
- Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik3
130 Journal of Roman Studies2
- Linguistique2
- Milton Studies2
- Anglia-Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie2
- Mnemosyne2
- Modern Language Quarterly2
- Cambridge Quarterly2
- Canadian Theatre Review2
- Nottingham French Studies2
- Comparative Literature2
- Oxford Literary Review2
- Critical Quarterly2
- Quaderni d'Italianistica2
- English2
- English Literary Renaissance2
- Etudes Anglaises2
- Russian Literature2
- Science-Fiction Studies2
- Explicator2
- Fabula2
- Studies in American Jewish Literature2
- Forum for Modern Language Studies2
- French Studies2
- German Life and Letters2
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language2
- Historiographia Linguistica2
- Irish University Review2
- Journal of Beckett Studies2
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology2
- Literature and Theology2
- Melus2
- Minnesota Review2
- Modern Drama2
- Australian Journal of French Studies2
- Modern Philology2
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies2
- Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens2
- New Theatre Quarterly2
- Notes and Queries2
- Classical Philology2
- Pamietnik Literacki2
- Critical Survey2
- Critique2
- Ramus-Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature2
- English Language Notes2
- Revue Romane2
- Estudios Filologicos2
- Russkaia Literatura2
- Extrapolation2
- Studia Neophilologica2
- Studies in Canadian Literature-Etudes en Litterature Canadienne2
- Germanic Review2
- Hermes-Zeitschrift fuer Klassische Philologie2
- Twentieth Century Literature2
- Italian Studies2
- Journal of Arabic Literature2
- Journal of Commonwealth Literature2
- Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie2
188 Literature & History-Third Series1
- Cahiers Elisabethains1
- Criticon1
- Dix-Septieme Siecle1
- Resources for American Literary Study1
- Revue des Langues Romanes1
- RLC-Revue de Litterature Comparee1
- Essays in Criticism1
- Romanische Forschungen1
- Etudes Germaniques1
- Giornale Storico Della Letteratura Italiana1
- Greece & Rome1
- Wordsworth Circle1
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