Literature & Language: Journal Rankings

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Communication	21
2	Modern Language Journal	16
3	Journal of Communication Disorders	14
-	Language Learning	14
5	Foreign Language Annals	13
6	IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching	12
7	Lingua	11
8	Linguistics	9
-	Journal of Advertising Research	9
10	Language and Speech	7
11	Linguistic Inquiry	6
12	Langue Francaise	5
-	Meta	5
-	Phonetica	5
-	American Speech	5
-	Journal of American Folklore	5
-	Journal of Linguistics	5
-	Journal of the International Phonetic Association	5
19	Canadian Modern Language Review-Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes	4
-	Names-A Journal of Onomastics	4
21	Journal of Popular Culture	3
-	Minnesota Review	3
-	Neophilologus	3
-	Novel-A Forum on Fiction	3
-	Canadian Journal of Linguistics-Revue Canadienne de Linguistique	3
-	Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction	3
-	English Studies	3
-	Esprit	3
-	German Quarterly	3
-	Philosophy and Rhetoric	3
-	American Literature	3
-	Classical Quarterly	3
-	English Studies in Africa	3
34	French Studies	2
-	German Life and Letters	2
-	Greece & Rome	2
-	Journal of Commonwealth Literature	2
-	Modern Philology	2
-	Notes and Queries	2
-	Australian Journal of French Studies	2
-	Bulletin Hispanique	2
-	Comparative Literature Studies	2
-	Critical Survey	2
-	Dix-Septieme Siecle	2
-	English Language Notes	2
-	Etudes Anglaises	2
-	Etudes Germaniques	2
-	Explicator	2
-	Forum for Modern Language Studies	2
-	Germanic Review	2

-	International Journal of American Linguistics	2
-	Mnemosyne	2
-	Modern Language Quarterly	2
-	New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters	2
-	Pamietnik Literacki	2
-	Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	2
-	Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur	2
-	Chaucer Review	2
-	Comparative Literature	2
-	Critical Quarterly	2
-	English Literary Renaissance	2
-	Extrapolation	2
-	Folklore	2
-	Forum Italicum	2
65	Giornale Storico Della Letteratura Italiana	1
-	Iberoromania	1
-	Irish University Review	1
-	Modern Drama	1
-	Philologus	1
-	Classical Philology	1
-	Classical Review	1
-	Fabula	1
-	Hermes-Zeitschrift fuer Klassische Philologie	1
-	Milton Quarterly	1
-	Nottingham French Studies	1
-	Arcadia	1
-	Cambridge Quarterly	1
-	Critique	1
-	Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte	1
-	English	1
-	Essays in Criticism	1
-	Etudes Francaises	1
-	Etudes Litteraires	1
84	Gnomon-Kritische Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft	0

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