Literature & Language: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Advertising	14
2	Public Relations Review	12
-	Telecommunications Policy	12
-	International Journal of Advertising	12
5	System	10
6	Journal of Communication	9
7	Modern Language Journal	8
-	TESOL Quarterly	8
9	Language Teaching	7
-	Communication Research	7
-	Human Communication Research	7
-	Studies in Second Language Acquisition	7
13	Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development	6
-	Brain and Language	6
-	Journal of Social and Personal Relationships	6
-	Media Culture & Society	6
-	RELC Journal	6
-	Language Testing	6
-	Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools	6
-	Written Communication	6
21	Applied Psycholinguistics	5
-	Information Society	5
-	Journal of Communication Disorders	5
-	Language Learning	5
-	Journal of Phonetics	5
-	Applied Linguistics	5
-	Public Opinion Quarterly	5
28	Aphasiology	4
-	IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching	4
-	Journal of Advertising Research	4
-	Journal of Language and Social Psychology	4
-	Poetics	4
-	Journal of Pragmatics	4
-	Asian Journal of Communication	4
-	Journal of Applied Communication Research	4
-	Journal of Fluency Disorders	4
37	Linguistics and Philosophy	3
-	Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication	3
-	First Language	3
-	Theory Culture & Society	3
-	Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics	3
-	Journal of Child Language	3
-	Language & Communication	3
-	Topics in Language Disorders	3
-	Language Sciences	3
-	Linguistic Inquiry	3
-	Communication Monographs	3
-	Foreign Language Annals	3
-	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research	3
-	Mind & Language	3

-	Second Language Research	3
52	Lingua	2
-	Linguistic Review	2
-	Natural Language & Linguistic Theory	2
-	Linguistics	2
-	English World-Wide	2
-	Studies in Language	2
-	Journal of Semantics	2
-	Canadian Modern Language Review-Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes	2
-	Communications-European Journal of Communication Research	2
-	IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication	2
-	Language and Speech	2
63	Language Problems & Language Planning	1
-	Langue Francaise	1
-	American Speech	1
-	Babel-Revue Internationale de la Traduction-International Journal of Translation	1
-	Canadian Journal of Linguistics-Revue Canadienne de Linguistique	1
-	New German Critique	1
-	Nordic Journal of Linguistics	1
-	Diachronica	1
-	Representations	1
-	English Today	1
-	Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada	1
-	Revista Signos	1
-	South Atlantic Quarterly	1
-	Studies in Canadian Literature-Etudes en Litterature Canadienne	1
-	Journal of Commonwealth Literature	1
-	Journal of English Linguistics	1
-	Journal of Linguistics	1
-	Journal of the International Phonetic Association	1
-	Langages	1
-	Zeitschrift fuer Germanistische Linguistik	1
-	Australian Journal of Linguistics	1
-	Childrens Literature in Education	1
-	Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies	1
-	Phonetica	1
-	English Studies in Africa	1
-	Rhetoric Society Quarterly	1
-	Studia Linguistica	1
-	Transactions of the Philological Society	1
-	Quarterly Journal of Speech	1
92	Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik	0
-	Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie	0
-	Acta Literaria	0
-	Literature and Theology	0
-	Litterature	0
-	Arcadia	0
-	Melanges de la Casa de Velazquez	0
-	Australian Journal of French Studies	0
-	Meta	0
-	Milton Studies	0
-	Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture	0
-	Mnemosyne	0
-	Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies	0
-	Modern Language Quarterly	0
-	Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens	0
-	Chaucer Review	0
-	Neophilologus	0
-	Classical Philology	0
-	Classical Review	0
-	Comparative Literature Studies	0
-	Nottingham French Studies	0
-	Critical Inquiry	0
-	Orbis Litterarum	0
-	Critical Survey	0
-	Oxford Literary Review	0
-	Critique	0
-	Paragraph	0
-	Daphnis-Zeitschrift fuer Mittlere Deutsche Literatur	0
-	Philosophy and Rhetoric	0
-	Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	0
-	Eighteenth-Century Life	0
-	Poetics Today	0
-	English Language Notes	0
-	Quaderni d'Italianistica	0
-	English Studies	0
-	Review of English Studies	0
-	Esprit	0
-	Revista de Filologia Espanola	0
-	Estudios Filologicos	0
-	Etudes Francaises	0
-	Etudes Litteraires	0
-	Revue Romane	0
-	Extrapolation	0
-	Rhetoric Review	0
-	RILCE-Revista de Filologia Hispanica	0
-	Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies	0
-	RLC-Revue de Litterature Comparee	0
-	Forum for Modern Language Studies	0
-	Romanische Forschungen	0
-	French Studies	0
-	Russian Literature	0
-	German Life and Letters	0
-	Science-Fiction Studies	0
-	Giornale Storico Della Letteratura Italiana	0
-	Shakespeare Quarterly	0
-	Greece & Rome	0
-	Historiographia Linguistica	0
-	Studia Neophilologica	0
-	Internationales Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur	0
-	Irish University Review	0
-	Studi Francesi	0
-	Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik	0
-	Symposium-A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures	0
-	Journal of Arabic Literature	0
-	Theater	0
-	Theatre Survey	0
-	Translation Review	0
-	Tydskrif vir Letterkunde	0
-	Journal of Popular Culture	0
-	Walt Whitman Quarterly Review	0
-	Journal of Roman Studies	0
-	Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik	0
-	European Journal of Communication	0
-	Zeitschrift fuer Slawistik	0
-	LiLi-Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik	0
-	Linguistique	0
-	American Literature	0
-	Literature & History-Third Series	0
-	Anglia-Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie	0
-	Litteratures	0
-	Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies	0
-	Melus	0
-	Milton Quarterly	0
-	Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur	0

-	Minnesota Review	0
-	Bulletin Hispanique	0
-	Modern Drama	0
-	Cahiers Elisabethains	0
-	Modern Philology	0
-	Cambridge Quarterly	0
-	Names-A Journal of Onomastics	0
-	Canadian Theatre Review	0
-	Neohelicon	0
-	New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters	0
-	Classical Quarterly	0
-	New Theatre Quarterly	0
-	Comparative Literature	0
-	Notes and Queries	0
-	Novel-A Forum on Fiction	0
-	Critical Quarterly	0
-	Oxford German Studies	0
-	Criticon	0
-	Pamietnik Literacki	0
-	Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction	0
-	Philologus	0
-	Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte	0
-	Dix-Septieme Siecle	0
-	English	0
-	Polis	0

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