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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Communication	9
2	TESOL Quarterly	8
3	Modern Language Journal	7
4	RELC Journal	6
5	Journal of Advertising Research	5
-	Journal of Communication Disorders	5
-	Language Learning	5
-	Public Opinion Quarterly	5
9	IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching	4
10	Foreign Language Annals	3
-	Linguistic Inquiry	3
12	Lingua	2
-	Linguistics	2
-	South Atlantic Quarterly	2
-	Canadian Modern Language Review-Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes	2
-	Language and Speech	2
17	Studia Linguistica	1
-	English Studies in Africa	1
-	Journal of Linguistics	1
-	Journal of the International Phonetic Association	1
-	Names-A Journal of Onomastics	1
-	Quarterly Journal of Speech	1
-	American Speech	1
-	Canadian Journal of Linguistics-Revue Canadienne de Linguistique	1
-	Journal of Commonwealth Literature	1
-	Langue Francaise	1
-	Phonetica	1
28	Romanische Forschungen	0
-	Shakespeare Quarterly	0
-	Studi Francesi	0
-	Symposium-A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures	0
-	Theatre Survey	0
-	American Literature	0
-	Arcadia	0
-	Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur	0
-	Cambridge Quarterly	0
-	Chaucer Review	0
-	Classical Quarterly	0
-	Comparative Literature	0
-	Critical Quarterly	0
-	Critique	0
-	Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte	0
-	English	0
-	English Literary Renaissance	0
-	Essays in Criticism	0
-	Etudes Francaises	0
-	Etudes Litteraires	0
-	Extrapolation	0
-	Folklore	0
-	Forum Italicum	0

-	Germanic Review	0
-	German Quarterly	0
-	Gnomon-Kritische Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft	0
-	Hermes-Zeitschrift fuer Klassische Philologie	0
-	International Journal of American Linguistics	0
-	Journal of American Folklore	0
-	Milton Quarterly	0
-	Mnemosyne	0
-	Modern Language Quarterly	0
-	New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters	0
-	Nottingham French Studies	0
-	Pamietnik Literacki	0
-	Philosophy and Rhetoric	0
-	Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	0
-	Revista de Literatura	0
-	Revue Romane	0
-	RLC-Revue de Litterature Comparee	0
-	Seminar-A Journal of Germanic Studies	0
-	Studia Neophilologica	0
-	Style	0
-	Texas Studies in Literature and Language	0
-	Australian Journal of French Studies	0
-	Bulletin Hispanique	0
-	Classical Philology	0
-	Classical Review	0
-	Comparative Literature Studies	0
-	Critical Survey	0
-	Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction	0
-	Dix-Septieme Siecle	0
-	English Language Notes	0
-	English Studies	0
-	Esprit	0
-	Etudes Anglaises	0
-	Etudes Germaniques	0
-	Explicator	0
-	Fabula	0
-	Forum for Modern Language Studies	0
-	French Studies	0
-	German Life and Letters	0
-	Giornale Storico Della Letteratura Italiana	0
-	Greece & Rome	0
-	Iberoromania	0
-	Irish University Review	0
-	Journal of Popular Culture	0
-	Meta	0
-	Minnesota Review	0
-	Modern Drama	0
-	Modern Philology	0
-	Neophilologus	0
-	Notes and Queries	0
-	Novel-A Forum on Fiction	0
-	Philologus	0
-	Review of English Studies	0
-	Revista Iberoamericana	0
-	Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica	0
-	Romance Philology	0

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