New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Literature & Language

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Studi Francesi1508
2 Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research1320
3 Esprit1261
4 French Studies1105
5 New Media & Society1073
6 French Review1056
7 Classical Review1023
8 System975
9 Health Communication954
10 Journal of Pragmatics864
11 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development844
12 American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology842
13 American Literary History814
14 Pragmatics740
15 Journal of Social and Personal Relationships697
16 Information Communication & Society677
17 Feminist Media Studies662
18 Social Media + Society643
19 Media and Communication610
20 International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders602
21 Journalism585
22 Notes and Queries574
23 Journalism Practice566
24 Ploughshares523
25 Language Teaching Research513
26 Textual Practice504
27 Performance Research498
28 American Book Review486
29 Gnomon-Kritische Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft478
- Telecommunications Policy478
31 Journalism Studies474
32 Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies473
33 International Journal of Applied Linguistics453
34 Memory Studies450
35 Profesional de la Informacion447
- Bilingualism-Language and Cognition447
37 Massachusetts Review442
38 Journal of Popular Culture441
39 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities433
40 Review of English Studies425
41 Journal of Postcolonial Writing424
42 Media Culture & Society421
- Russkaia Literatura421
44 Teksty Drugie415
45 Lingua414
46 Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics413
47 Digital Journalism411
48 English Studies408
49 New England Review-Middlebury Series399
50 Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture392
51 Psychology of Popular Media388
- International Journal of Multilingualism388
53 Language in Society387
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly387
55 Public Relations Review384
56 Asian Studies Review383
- European Journal of Cultural Studies383
58 TESOL Quarterly377
59 Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America374
60 Critique372
61 Journal of English for Academic Purposes365
62 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research363
63 ISLE-Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment359
64 Critical Inquiry358
65 European Journal of Communication357
66 Journal of Hellenic Studies354
67 Aphasiology353
68 Journal of Roman Studies346
- Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews346
70 Linguistics and Education345
71 Applied Linguistics344
- International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology344
73 Classical Quarterly342
74 Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice340
75 Journal of Health Communication339
76 Romantisme338
77 Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series-Themes in Translation Studies337
78 Linguistics Vanguard335
79 Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools332
- International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism332
81 Brain and Language330
82 Journal of American Folklore329
83 Modern Philology321
84 International Journal of Bilingualism315
85 Revista Iberoamericana311
86 Language Cognition and Neuroscience308
- International Journal of Cultural Policy308
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics308
89 Early American Literature307
90 Applied Linguistics Review306
- Public Understanding of Science306
92 IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching304
93 Journal of Child Language302
94 Modern Language Journal301
95 German Quarterly300
- Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion300
97 Dix-Septieme Siecle299
98 Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies298
99 Computer Assisted Language Learning296
100 Quaderni d'Italianistica295
101 Discourse Studies294
102 Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction292
103 Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie291
- Journal of Cultural Economy291
105 Journal of Language Identity and Education290
106 Language Learning289
107 International Journal of Mobile Communications285
108 Studies in Second Language Acquisition284
109 Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching282
- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies282
- Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies282
112 Assessing Writing281
113 Bulletin of Spanish Studies280
114 International Journal of Advertising279
115 Canadian Theatre Review277
- Alea-Estudos Neolatinos277
117 Theatre Dance and Performance Training276
118 ELT Journal275
- Public Opinion Quarterly275
120 Games and Culture274
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction274
122 Contemporary French and Francophone Studies272
- Journal of Language and Politics272
124 Journal of Second Language Writing271
- TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies271
126 Archiv fuer das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen269
127 Theory Culture & Society268
- Foreign Language Annals268
129 Language and Education267
130 Media International Australia265
- Poetics265
132 RELC Journal263
133 Journal of Communication Disorders261
- Babel-Revue Internationale de la Traduction-International Journal of Translation261
135 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies259
136 Mnemosyne257
- Forum for Modern Language Studies257
138 Folia Linguistica255
139 Journal of Memory and Language253
- English Language & Linguistics253
141 Cahiers Elisabethains252
142 Communication & Sport251
- Language & Communication251
144 Shakespeare250
145 Anglia-Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie248
146 Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics247
147 Journal of Australian Studies245
148 Wordsworth Circle244
149 Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies243
150 Minnesota Review242
151 Discourse & Society241
- Folklore241
153 Mass Communication and Society240
154 Pragmatics and Society239
- Melanges de la Casa de Velazquez239
156 RILCE-Revista de Filologia Hispanica238
157 Hispanofila237
158 Personal Relationships236
159 Language and Cognition233
160 International Journal of Press-Politics231
161 Critical Quarterly230
- Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies230
163 Language and Intercultural Communication229
164 South Atlantic Quarterly227
165 Discourse & Communication226
166 Tydskrif vir Letterkunde225
- Journal of Sociolinguistics225
- RLC-Revue de Litterature Comparee225
169 Pamietnik Literacki224
170 Bulletin Hispanique223
171 International Research in Childrens Literature222
- Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies222
- International Journal of Cultural Studies222
174 Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats221
- Forum Italicum221
176 Mind & Language219
177 Television & New Media218
- Sewanee Review218
179 Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power217
180 Irish University Review216
181 Explicator215
- Journal of Communication215
183 Classical Philology214
- Cultural Studies214
185 Discourse Context & Media213
186 Neohelicon210
- Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur210
188 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication209
- Linguistics209
- Rhetoric Society Quarterly209
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology209
192 Political Communication208
- Social Semiotics208
- Communications-European Journal of Communication Research208
195 MFS-Modern Fiction Studies207
196 Orbis Litterarum206
197 Missouri Review205
- Journal of Phonetics205
- English for Specific Purposes205
200 Language Teaching204
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