Linguistics and language journals: applied linguistics, second-language acquisition, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, grammar and language documentation. All 379 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in linguistics and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Applied linguistics and language-teaching journals collect citations faster than theoretical and descriptive linguistics journals, which is why they lead the list.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | 9.4 | Q1 | 124 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 2 | SYSTEM | 9.1 | Q1 | 204 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Language Dynamics and Change | 8.1 | Q1 | 32 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 4 | Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | 6.8 | Q1 | 57 | Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University | Poland |
| 5 | Constructions and Frames | 6.7 | Q1 | 29 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 6 | Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area | 5.5 | Q1 | 37 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 7 | Journal of Asian Pacific Communication | 5.4 | Q1 | 32 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 8 | RELC Journal | 4.8 | Q1 | 96 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 9 | AILA Review | 4.6 | Q1 | 40 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 10 | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education | 4.2 | Q1 | 35 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 11 | Language Teaching | 4.2 | Q1 | 128 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 12 | STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | 4.2 | Q1 | 196 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 13 | Journal of Historical Pragmatics | 4.0 | Q1 | 44 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 14 | MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL | 3.9 | Q1 | 308 | Wiley | United States |
| 15 | TESOL QUARTERLY | 3.8 | Q1 | 265 | Wiley | United States |
| 16 | APPLIED LINGUISTICS | 3.7 | Q1 | 206 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Applied Linguistics Review | 3.7 | Q1 | 55 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 18 | ELT Journal | 3.6 | Q1 | 158 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 19 | Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching | 3.6 | Q1 | 62 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 20 | LANGUAGE LEARNING | 3.6 | Q1 | 227 | Wiley | United States |
| 21 | International Multilingual Research Journal | 3.4 | Q1 | 49 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 22 | International Journal of Applied Linguistics | 3.3 | Q1 | 79 | Wiley | Norway |
| 23 | JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT | 3.0 | Q1 | 112 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 24 | Language and Education | 3.0 | Q1 | 87 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Language Awareness | 3.0 | Q1 | 69 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 26 | Language Teaching Research | 3.0 | Q1 | 134 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 27 | Profile-Issues in Teachers Professional Development | 3.0 | Q1 | 36 | National University of Colombia | – |
| 28 | Language Culture and Curriculum | 2.9 | Q1 | 72 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Pedagogies | 2.9 | Q1 | 38 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 30 | Revue Roumaine de Linguistique-Romanian Review of Linguistics | 2.9 | Q1 | 5 | – | – |
| 31 | Translation and Interpreting Studies | 2.8 | Q1 | 33 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | United States |
| 32 | Linguistics and Education | 2.7 | Q1 | 92 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 33 | International Journal of Legal Discourse | 2.5 | Q1 | 18 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 34 | Translation Spaces | 2.5 | Q1 | 31 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 35 | JOURNAL OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES | 2.4 | Q1 | 52 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 36 | Language Learning Journal | 2.4 | Q1 | 66 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 37 | Morphology | 2.4 | Q1 | 50 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 38 | STUDIES IN LANGUAGE | 2.4 | Q1 | 88 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 39 | TESOL Journal | 2.3 | Q1 | 58 | Wiley | United States |
| 40 | Reading & Writing-Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa | 2.2 | Q1 | 22 | AOSIS | South Africa |
| 41 | Classroom Discourse | 2.1 | Q1 | 41 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 42 | Current Issues in Language Planning | 2.1 | Q1 | 67 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 43 | Journal of Language and Politics | 2.1 | Q1 | 55 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 44 | Interpreting | 2.0 | Q1 | 61 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 45 | LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION | 2.0 | Q1 | 93 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 46 | SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH | 2.0 | Q1 | 112 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 47 | TESL Canada Journal | 2.0 | Q1 | 54 | – | Canada |
| 48 | Fachsprache-Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication | 1.9 | Q1 | 13 | Braumüller | Austria |
| 49 | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism | 1.9 | Q1 | 118 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 50 | International Journal of Multilingualism | 1.9 | Q1 | 74 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 51 | JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS | 1.8 | Q1 | 230 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 52 | World Englishes | 1.8 | Q1 | 102 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 53 | Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory | 1.7 | Q1 | 55 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 54 | Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics | 1.7 | Q1 | 19 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 55 | English Teaching and Learning | 1.7 | Q1 | 22 | Springer Science+Business Media | – |
| 56 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS | 1.7 | Q1 | 115 | Wiley | United States |
| 57 | Journal of Language Identity and Education | 1.7 | Q1 | 71 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 58 | JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS | 1.7 | Q1 | 118 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 59 | Porta Linguarum | 1.7 | Q1 | 34 | Rovira i Virgili University | Spain |
| 60 | Annual Review of Linguistics | 1.6 | Q1 | 59 | Annual Reviews | United States |
| 61 | Cogent Arts & Humanities | 1.6 | Q1 | 33 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 62 | Journal of Specialised Translation | 1.6 | Q1 | 39 | – | – |
| 63 | Russian Journal of Linguistics | 1.6 | Q1 | 27 | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia | Russia |
| 64 | Sociolinguistica | 1.6 | Q1 | 29 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 65 | International Journal of Bilingualism | 1.5 | Q1 | 99 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 66 | Language and Intercultural Communication | 1.5 | Q1 | 66 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 67 | Language and Linguistics Compass | 1.5 | Q1 | 100 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 68 | LANGUAGE SCIENCES | 1.5 | Q1 | 95 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 69 | LINGUISTICS | 1.5 | Q1 | 137 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 70 | Open Linguistics | 1.5 | Q1 | 31 | De Gruyter Open | Poland |
| 71 | Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices | 1.4 | Q1 | 11 | Equinox Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 72 | Pragmatics & Cognition | 1.4 | Q1 | 61 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 73 | Bilingual Research Journal | 1.3 | Q1 | 75 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 74 | Changing English-Studies in Culture and Education | 1.3 | Q1 | 29 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 75 | COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS | 1.3 | Q1 | 113 | De Gruyter Mouton | Germany |
| 76 | English Text Construction | 1.3 | Q1 | 27 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 77 | LANGUAGE | 1.3 | Q1 | 396 | Linguistic Society of America | United States |
| 78 | Language Learning in Higher Education | 1.3 | Q1 | 20 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 79 | Languages | 1.3 | Q1 | 38 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 80 | LINGUA | 1.3 | Q1 | 185 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 81 | Literator-Journal of Literary Criticism Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies | 1.3 | Q1 | 18 | AOSIS | South Africa |
| 82 | Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice | 1.3 | Q1 | 57 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 83 | Pragmatics | 1.3 | Q1 | 73 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | – |
| 84 | Spanish in Context | 1.3 | Q1 | 31 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 85 | Syntax-A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research | 1.3 | Q1 | 75 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 86 | THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS | 1.3 | Q1 | 66 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 87 | Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts | 1.3 | Q1 | 19 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 88 | Australian Journal of Linguistics | 1.2 | Q1 | 91 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 89 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEXICOGRAPHY | 1.2 | Q1 | 59 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 90 | Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education | 1.2 | Q1 | 29 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 91 | Language Assessment Quarterly | 1.2 | Q1 | 64 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 92 | Language Policy | 1.2 | Q1 | 63 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 93 | Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication | 1.2 | Q1 | 67 | De Gruyter Mouton | Germany |
| 94 | Signs and Society | 1.2 | Q1 | 30 | University of Chicago Press | United States |
| 95 | Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft | 1.2 | Q1 | 41 | De Gruyter Mouton | Germany |
| 96 | Asian Englishes | 1.1 | Q1 | 48 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 97 | Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | 1.1 | Q1 | 45 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Australia |
| 98 | Corpus Pragmatics | 1.1 | Q1 | 24 | Springer Science+Business Media | Switzerland |
| 99 | DISCOURSE & SOCIETY | 1.1 | Q1 | 125 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 100 | European Journal of Applied Linguistics | 1.1 | Q1 | 26 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 101 | Journal of Multicultural Discourses | 1.1 | Q1 | 41 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 102 | Language Problems & Language Planning | 1.1 | Q1 | 48 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 103 | Linguistica Pragensia | 1.1 | Q1 | 10 | Charles University | Czech Republic |
| 104 | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus-SPiL Plus | 1.1 | Q1 | 26 | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
| 105 | Cognitive Linguistic Studies | 1.1 | Q2 | 17 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 106 | English World-Wide | 1.1 | Q2 | 70 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Germany |
| 107 | Language Variation and Change | 1.1 | Q2 | 107 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 108 | NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY | 1.1 | Q2 | 157 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 109 | Tradumatica-Traduccio i Tecnologies de la Informacio i la Comunicacio | 1.1 | Q2 | 16 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 110 | Translator | 1.1 | Q2 | 67 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 111 | Chinese Language and Discourse | 1.0 | Q2 | 18 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 112 | Cognitive Semantics | 1.0 | Q2 | 15 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 113 | Journal of English as a Lingua Franca | 1.0 | Q2 | 36 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 114 | Journal of Historical Linguistics | 1.0 | Q2 | 23 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 115 | Journal of Language and Sexuality | 1.0 | Q2 | 22 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 116 | Journal of Language Contact | 1.0 | Q2 | 42 | Brill | France |
| 117 | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | 1.0 | Q2 | 96 | Wiley | United States |
| 118 | Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal | 1.0 | Q2 | 25 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 119 | Linguistics Vanguard | 1.0 | Q2 | 39 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 120 | Natural Language Semantics | 1.0 | Q2 | 101 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 121 | Yazyk i Kultura-Language and Culture | 1.0 | Q2 | 12 | Omsk State University | Russia |
| 122 | DISCOURSE STUDIES | 0.9 | Q2 | 101 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 123 | Forum-Revue Internationale d Interpretation et de Traduction-International Journal of Interpretation and Translation | 0.9 | Q2 | 23 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | South Korea |
| 124 | Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics | 0.9 | Q2 | 14 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 125 | Journal of Second Language Pronunciation | 0.9 | Q2 | 26 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 126 | Linguistic Typology | 0.9 | Q2 | 77 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 127 | Review of Cognitive Linguistics | 0.9 | Q2 | 33 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 128 | STUF-Language Typology and Universals | 0.9 | Q2 | 54 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 129 | Text & Talk | 0.9 | Q2 | 87 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 130 | Translation & Interpreting-The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting | 0.9 | Q2 | 22 | Western Sydney University | Australia |
| 131 | Voprosy Yazykoznaniya | 0.9 | Q2 | 12 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia |
| 132 | AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK | 0.8 | Q2 | 9 | – | Germany |
| 133 | CANADIAN MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW-REVUE CANADIENNE DES LANGUES VIVANTES | 0.8 | Q2 | 95 | University of Toronto Press | Canada |
| 134 | Contrastive Pragmatics | 0.8 | Q2 | 14 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 135 | Diachronica | 0.8 | Q2 | 57 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 136 | English Today | 0.8 | Q2 | 63 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 137 | Heritage Language Journal | 0.8 | Q2 | 42 | – | United States |
| 138 | Language Matters | 0.8 | Q2 | 34 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 139 | Lexikos | 0.8 | Q2 | 34 | Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT | South Africa |
| 140 | LINGUISTIC REVIEW | 0.8 | Q2 | 94 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 141 | Quaderns de Filologia-Estudis Linguistics | 0.8 | Q2 | 7 | University of Valencia | Spain |
| 142 | Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas | 0.8 | Q2 | 16 | Technical University of Valencia | Spain |
| 143 | Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada | 0.8 | Q2 | 25 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Spain |
| 144 | Target-International Journal of Translation Studies | 0.8 | Q2 | 71 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 145 | Translation Studies | 0.8 | Q2 | 40 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 146 | Across Languages and Cultures | 0.7 | Q2 | 43 | Akadémiai Kiadó | Hungary |
| 147 | English in Education | 0.7 | Q2 | 41 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 148 | Functions of Language | 0.7 | Q2 | 49 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 149 | GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies | 0.7 | Q2 | 33 | National University of Malaysia | – |
| 150 | Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics | 0.7 | Q2 | 57 | Ubiquity Press | United Kingdom |
| 151 | Intercultural Pragmatics | 0.7 | Q2 | 68 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 152 | International Journal of Chinese Linguistics | 0.7 | Q2 | 9 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 153 | JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS | 0.7 | Q2 | 66 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 154 | Laboratory Phonology | 0.7 | Q2 | 47 | Ubiquity Press | Germany |
| 155 | LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY | 0.7 | Q2 | 153 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 156 | LINGUISTIC INQUIRY | 0.7 | Q2 | 187 | The MIT Press | United States |
| 157 | Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series-Themes in Translation Studies | 0.7 | Q2 | 33 | – | Belgium |
| 158 | Nordic Journal of Linguistics | 0.7 | Q2 | 47 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 159 | Pragmatics and Society | 0.7 | Q2 | 28 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 160 | PROBUS | 0.7 | Q2 | 67 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 161 | Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies | 0.7 | Q2 | 53 | Taylor & Francis | South Africa |
| 162 | Acta Linguistica Academica | 0.6 | Q2 | 15 | Akadémiai Kiadó | Hungary |
| 163 | ALSIC-Apprentissage des Langues et Systems d Information et de Communication | 0.6 | Q2 | 21 | Marc Bloch University | France |
| 164 | Asia-Pacific Language Variation | 0.6 | Q2 | 12 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 165 | ELIA-Estudios de Linguistica Inglesa Aplicada | 0.6 | Q2 | 11 | Editorial Universidad de Sevilla | Spain |
| 166 | English Language & Linguistics | 0.6 | Q2 | 66 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 167 | FOLIA LINGUISTICA | 0.6 | Q2 | 61 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 168 | Forma y Funcion | 0.6 | Q2 | 10 | National University of Colombia | – |
| 169 | Gender and Language | 0.6 | Q2 | 35 | Equinox Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 170 | HISTORIOGRAPHIA LINGUISTICA | 0.6 | Q2 | 42 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 171 | Iberica | 0.6 | Q2 | 11 | Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos | Spain |
| 172 | International Review of Pragmatics | 0.6 | Q2 | 31 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 173 | Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics | 0.6 | Q2 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 174 | JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS | 0.6 | Q2 | 68 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 175 | Journal of Germanic Linguistics | 0.6 | Q2 | 30 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 176 | Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics | 0.6 | Q2 | 17 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 177 | Language-Culture and Society | 0.6 | Q2 | 15 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 178 | Languages in Contrast | 0.6 | Q2 | 33 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 179 | Linguamatica | 0.6 | Q2 | 6 | University of Minho | Portugal |
| 180 | Linguas e Instrumentos Linguisticos | 0.6 | Q2 | 4 | University of Campinas | Brazil |
| 181 | Linguistic Variation | 0.6 | Q2 | 25 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 182 | MonTI | 0.6 | Q2 | 29 | University of Alicante | Spain |
| 183 | Per Linguam-A Journal of Language Learning | 0.6 | Q2 | 28 | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
| 184 | RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS | 0.6 | Q2 | 26 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 185 | Semantics & Pragmatics | 0.6 | Q2 | 55 | Linguistic Society of America | United States |
| 186 | Terminology | 0.6 | Q2 | 48 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 187 | ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERMANISTISCHE LINGUISTIK | 0.6 | Q2 | 29 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 188 | AMERICAN SPEECH | 0.5 | Q2 | 85 | Duke University Press | United States |
| 189 | Babel-Revue Internationale de la Traduction-International Journal of Translation | 0.5 | Q2 | 36 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 190 | CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE | 0.5 | Q2 | 54 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 191 | Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion | 0.5 | Q2 | 20 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
| 192 | Complutense Journal of English Studies | 0.5 | Q2 | 17 | – | Spain |
| 193 | Cultura Lenguaje y Representacion-Revista de Estudios Culturales de la Universitat Jaume I | 0.5 | Q2 | 13 | Carlos V | Spain |
| 194 | Eesti ja Soome-Ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri-Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics | 0.5 | Q2 | 12 | University of Tartu Press | – |
| 195 | Italiano LinguaDue | 0.5 | Q2 | 8 | University of Milan | Italy |
| 196 | Journal of Chinese Writing Systems | 0.5 | Q2 | 7 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 197 | Journal of Greek Linguistics | 0.5 | Q2 | 29 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 198 | Journal of Language Evolution | 0.5 | Q2 | 27 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 199 | JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS | 0.5 | Q2 | 123 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 200 | Langages | 0.5 | Q2 | 57 | Armand Colin | France |
| 201 | Language and Literacy | 0.5 | Q2 | 22 | Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada | Canada |
| 202 | Names-A Journal of Onomastics | 0.5 | Q2 | 32 | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 203 | Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics | 0.5 | Q2 | 28 | De Gruyter Mouton | Poland |
| 204 | Revista Signos | 0.5 | Q2 | 31 | – | – |
| 205 | Sociolinguistic Studies | 0.5 | Q2 | 38 | Equinox Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 206 | Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal | 0.5 | Q2 | 24 | Kanda University of International Studies | Japan |
| 207 | PHONETICA | 0.5 | – | 99 | Karger Publishers | Switzerland |
| 208 | Alicante Journal of English Studies-Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses | 0.4 | Q2 | 26 | – | Spain |
| 209 | AMERICAN ANNALS OF THE DEAF | 0.4 | Q2 | 69 | Gallaudet University Press | United States |
| 210 | Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal | 0.4 | Q2 | 29 | District University of Bogotá | – |
| 211 | How-A Colombian Journal for Teachers of English | 0.4 | Q2 | 23 | ASOCOPI | – |
| 212 | Language Teaching for Young Learners | 0.4 | Q2 | 16 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 213 | LANGUE FRANCAISE | 0.4 | Q2 | 54 | Éditions Larousse | France |
| 214 | Sintagma | 0.4 | Q2 | 5 | University of Lleida | Spain |
| 215 | Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia | 0.4 | Q2 | 4 | Babeș-Bolyai University | – |
| 216 | Studies in Language Assessment | 0.4 | Q2 | 14 | – | – |
| 217 | Unterrichtspraxis-Teaching German | 0.4 | Q2 | 45 | Wiley | United States |
| 218 | Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta-Yazyk i Literatura | 0.4 | Q2 | 9 | Saint Petersburg State University | Russia |
| 219 | Cadernos de Estudos Linguisticos | 0.4 | Q3 | 17 | University of Campinas | Brazil |
| 220 | Estudios de Linguistica-Universidad de Alicante-ELUA | 0.4 | Q3 | 23 | – | Spain |
| 221 | Fontes Linguae Vasconum | 0.4 | Q3 | 13 | Institución Príncipe de Viana | Spain |
| 222 | International Journal of English Studies | 0.4 | Q3 | 32 | University of Murcia | Spain |
| 223 | Journal of French Language Studies | 0.4 | Q3 | 58 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 224 | Language and Linguistics | 0.4 | Q3 | 24 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | United Kingdom |
| 225 | Nauchnyi Dialog | 0.4 | Q3 | 12 | – | Russia |
| 226 | Novye Issledovaniya Tuvy-New Research of Tuva | 0.4 | Q3 | 17 | Novye Issledovaniâ Tuvy | Russia |
| 227 | Pedagogical Linguistics | 0.4 | Q3 | 10 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 228 | Studia Metrica et Poetica | 0.4 | Q3 | 9 | University of Tartu | – |
| 229 | Topics in Linguistics | 0.4 | Q3 | 14 | De Gruyter Open | Germany |
| 230 | Voprosy Onomastiki-Problems of Onomastics | 0.4 | Q3 | 9 | Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta | Russia |
| 231 | WORD-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION | 0.4 | Q3 | 74 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 232 | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | 0.4 | – | 71 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 233 | Acta Neophilologica | 0.3 | Q3 | 4 | Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts | – |
| 234 | Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture | 0.3 | Q3 | 7 | University of Latvia | – |
| 235 | Cognitive Studies-Etudes Cognitives | 0.3 | Q3 | 16 | Institute of Slavic Studies | Poland |
| 236 | English Studies at NBU | 0.3 | Q3 | 7 | – | – |
| 237 | Journal of Asia TEFL | 0.3 | Q3 | 34 | – | South Korea |
| 238 | Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe | 0.3 | Q3 | 10 | – | – |
| 239 | Language & History | 0.3 | Q3 | 20 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 240 | Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum | 0.3 | Q3 | 6 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 241 | Lengua y Migracion-Language and Migration | 0.3 | Q3 | 5 | – | Spain |
| 242 | LILI-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT UND LINGUISTIK | 0.3 | Q3 | 21 | J.B. Metzler | Germany |
| 243 | Linguisticae Investigationes | 0.3 | Q3 | 31 | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Netherlands |
| 244 | Linguistics and the Human Sciences | 0.3 | Q3 | 22 | Equinox Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 245 | META | 0.3 | Q3 | 79 | Presses de l'Université de Montréal | Canada |
| 246 | MODERNA SPRAK | 0.3 | Q3 | 13 | – | – |
| 247 | RAEL-Revista Electronica de Linguistica Aplicada | 0.3 | Q3 | 3 | – | – |
| 248 | Recherche et Pratiques Pedagogiques en Langues de Specialite-Cahiers de l Apliut | 0.3 | Q3 | 13 | Association des Professeurs de Langues des IUT (APLIUT) | France |
| 249 | Slovo a Slovesnost | 0.3 | Q3 | 5 | Institute of the Czech Language | – |
| 250 | South African Journal of African Languages | 0.3 | Q3 | 47 | Taylor & Francis | South Africa |
Showing the top 250 of 379 linguistics journals. The remaining 129 are mostly Q3 and Q4; find them with the journal rankings filter or the journal search.
Most linguistics journals on this list are published in United Kingdom (67), Netherlands (59), Germany (46), Spain (36), United States (31).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked linguistics journals are Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, SYSTEM, Language Dynamics and Change, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, Constructions and Frames. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
104 of the 379 linguistics journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 113 are Q2, 101 are Q3 and 59 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Language and Linguistics or Linguistics and Language. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.