This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Language Linguistics journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computer Assisted Language Learning | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17443210, 09588221 | 3.513 |
| 2 | Artificial Intelligence Review | Springer Netherlands | 02692821, 15737462 | 3.01 |
| 3 | Assessing Writing | Elsevier Ltd | 10752935 | 2.847 |
| 4 | Journal of Communication | Wiley-Blackwell | 00219916, 14602466 | 2.532 |
| 5 | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge University Press | 2722631 | 2.506 |
| 6 | RELC Journal | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1745526X, 00336882 | 2.478 |
| 7 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | Elsevier B.V. | 27727661 | 2.452 |
| 8 | Modern Language Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 15404781, 00267902 | 2.394 |
| 9 | Communication Theory | Wiley-Blackwell | 14682885, 10503293 | 2.316 |
| 10 | Language Learning | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14679922, 00238333 | 2.287 |
| 11 | Communication Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00936502, 15523810 | 2.279 |
| 12 | System | Elsevier Ltd | 0346251X | 2.205 |
| 13 | Language Teaching Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13621688, 14770954 | 2.19 |
| 14 | Journal of Second Language Writing | Elsevier Ltd | 10603743 | 2.187 |
| 15 | ReCALL | Cambridge University Press | 9583440 | 2.177 |
| 16 | Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | Adam Mickiewicz University | 20835205, 20841965 | 1.915 |
| 17 | TESOL Quarterly | Wiley-Blackwell | 398322 | 1.862 |
| 18 | Language Teaching | Cambridge University Press | 02614448, 14753049 | 1.855 |
| 19 | Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier B.V. | 43702 | 1.836 |
| 20 | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | MIT Press Journals | 2307387X | 1.824 |
| 21 | Journal of Memory and Language | Academic Press Inc. | 10960821, 0749596X | 1.802 |
| 22 | Applied Linguistics | Oxford University Press | 01426001, 1477450X | 1.763 |
| 23 | Cognition | Elsevier B.V. | 18737838, 00100277 | 1.686 |
| 24 | Research on Language and Social Interaction | Routledge | 08351813, 15327973 | 1.686 |
| 25 | Journal of English for Academic Purposes | Elsevier B.V. | 14751585 | 1.674 |
| 26 | Mind and Language | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14680017, 02681064 | 1.668 |
| 27 | Linguistic Inquiry | MIT Press Journals | 243892 | 1.661 |
| 28 | Cognitive Psychology | Academic Press Inc. | 10955623, 00100285 | 1.651 |
| 29 | Human Communication Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 03603989, 14682958 | 1.602 |
| 30 | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526526, 0261927X | 1.593 |
| 31 | Annual Review of Linguistics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23339683, 23339691 | 1.548 |
| 32 | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies | Routledge | 15427595, 15427587 | 1.542 |
| 33 | Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17501237, 17501229 | 1.529 |
| 34 | Language Testing | SAGE Publications Ltd | 02655322, 14770946 | 1.511 |
| 35 | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge University Press | 2671905 | 1.417 |
| 36 | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13670050 | 1.41 |
| 37 | Syntax | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13680005, 14679612 | 1.407 |
| 38 | Journal of Phonetics | Academic Press | 00954470, 10958576 | 1.39 |
| 39 | Computational Communication Research | Amsterdam University Press | 26659085 | 1.383 |
| 40 | Second Language Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14770326, 02676583 | 1.366 |
| 41 | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge University Press | 14691817, 01427164 | 1.309 |
| 42 | Metaphor and Symbol | Psychology Press Ltd | 15327868, 10926488 | 1.303 |
| 43 | ELT Journal | Oxford University Press | 14774526, 09510893 | 1.302 |
| 44 | European Journal of Communication | SAGE Publications Ltd | 02673231, 14603705 | 1.297 |
| 45 | Language in Society | Cambridge University Press | 14698013, 00474045 | 1.28 |
| 46 | Language Learning Journal | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9571736 | 1.267 |
| 47 | Language Assessment Quarterly | Routledge | 15434303, 15434311 | 1.253 |
| 48 | Topics in Cognitive Science | Wiley-Blackwell | 17568765, 17568757 | 1.252 |
| 49 | Linguistics and Philosophy | Springer Netherlands | 1650157 | 1.242 |
| 50 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition | American Psychological Association | 19391285, 02787393 | 1.227 |
| 51 | Language and Education | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9500782 | 1.213 |
| 52 | Journal of Pragmatics | Elsevier B.V. | 3782166 | 1.206 |
| 53 | Open Mind | 24702986 | 1.198 | |
| 54 | Applied Linguistics Review | De Gruyter Mouton | 18686303, 18686311 | 1.188 |
| 55 | Spanish Journal of Psychology | Cambridge University Press | 19882904, 11387416 | 1.188 |
| 56 | Neurobiology of Language | 26414368 | 1.179 | |
| 57 | Poetics | Elsevier B.V. | 0304422X | 1.176 |
| 58 | Discourse and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14603624, 09579265 | 1.174 |
| 59 | Reading and Writing | Springer Netherlands | 09224777, 15730905 | 1.168 |
| 60 | Computational Linguistics | 08912017, 15309312 | 1.154 | |
| 61 | International Journal of Multilingualism | Routledge | 14790718 | 1.134 |
| 62 | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | Springer Netherlands | 0167806X, 15730859 | 1.12 |
| 63 | Bilingualism | Cambridge University Press | 14691841, 13667289 | 1.119 |
| 64 | Language Awareness | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9658416 | 1.117 |
| 65 | English for Specific Purposes | Elsevier B.V. | 8894906 | 1.097 |
| 66 | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | Routledge | 1434632 | 1.088 |
| 67 | Language Learning and Technology | 10943501 | 1.07 | |
| 68 | Journal of Sociolinguistics | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13606441, 14679841 | 1.057 |
| 69 | Interpreting | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 13846647 | 1.034 |
| 70 | Language | Linguistic Society of America | 15350665, 00978507 | 1.025 |
| 71 | Communication Monographs | Routledge | 03637751, 14795787 | 1.017 |
| 72 | IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG | 0019042X, 16134141 | 0.991 |
| 73 | Journal of Politeness Research | De Gruyter Mouton | 16125681, 16134877 | 0.99 |
| 74 | Journal of Semantics | Oxford University Press | 01675133, 14774593 | 0.986 |
| 75 | Natural Language Semantics | Springer Netherlands | 0925854X | 0.969 |
| 76 | Journal of Literacy Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1086296X, 15548430 | 0.96 |
| 77 | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge University Press | 03050009, 14697602 | 0.943 |
| 78 | Current Issues in Language Planning | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14664208 | 0.942 |
| 79 | International Journal of Audiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14992027, 17088186 | 0.941 |
| 80 | Brain and Language | Academic Press Inc. | 10902155, 0093934X | 0.93 |
| 81 | Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity | KeAi Communications Co. | 25889338 | 0.922 |
| 82 | Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice | Routledge | 0907676X, 17476623 | 0.911 |
| 83 | TESOL Journal | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 19493533, 10567941 | 0.911 |
| 84 | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge University Press | 14697742, 00222267 | 0.902 |
| 85 | ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) | Peeters Publishers | 17831490, 00190829 | 0.901 |
| 86 | Discourse and Communication | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17504813, 17504821 | 0.886 |
| 87 | Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 29496861, 29496845 | 0.884 |
| 88 | Discourse Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614456, 14617080 | 0.883 |
| 89 | Discourse Processes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0163853X, 15326950 | 0.878 |
| 90 | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | 10580360, 15589110 | 0.877 |
| 91 | Interpreter and Translator Trainer | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1750399X, 17570417 | 0.873 |
| 92 | Language Policy | Springer Netherlands | 15684555 | 0.858 |
| 93 | Journal of Language and Sexuality | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113770, 22113789 | 0.854 |
| 94 | Linguistic Typology | De Gruyter Mouton | 14300532, 1613415X | 0.854 |
| 95 | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | 0736587X | 0.842 |
| 96 | Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18799272, 18799264 | 0.834 |
| 97 | Russian Language Studies | RUDN University | 26188171, 26188163 | 0.833 |
| 98 | Applied Ontology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 18758533, 15705838 | 0.822 |
| 99 | Internet Pragmatics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25423851, 2542386X | 0.822 |
| 100 | Target | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 9241884 | 0.815 |
| 101 | International Journal of Applied Linguistics | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 08026106, 14734192 | 0.811 |
| 102 | International Journal of Lexicography | Oxford University Press | 9503846 | 0.81 |
| 103 | Aphasiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14645041, 02687038 | 0.809 |
| 104 | Reading and Writing Quarterly | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15210693, 10573569 | 0.806 |
| 105 | Russian Journal of Linguistics | RUDN University | 26868024, 26870088 | 0.799 |
| 106 | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge University Press | 9543945 | 0.798 |
| 107 | Metaphor and the Social World | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22104097, 22104070 | 0.798 |
| 108 | English Today | Cambridge University Press | 2660784 | 0.792 |
| 109 | Conference on Machine Translation - Proceedings | Association for Computational Linguistics | 27680983 | 0.79 |
| 110 | International Multilingual Research Journal | Routledge | 19313160, 19313152 | 0.789 |
| 111 | Translation Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14781700, 17512921 | 0.788 |
| 112 | ESP Today | University of Belgrade | 23349050 | 0.782 |
| 113 | Foreign Language Annals | Wiley-Blackwell | 0015718X | 0.781 |
| 114 | Journal of Communication Disorders | Elsevier Inc. | 00219924, 18737994 | 0.773 |
| 115 | Language and Speech | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00238309, 17566053 | 0.772 |
| 116 | Language Learning and Development | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15475441, 15473341 | 0.768 |
| 117 | Linguistics and Education | Elsevier Ltd | 8985898 | 0.764 |
| 118 | Translation Spaces (The Netherlands) | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113711, 2211372X | 0.764 |
| 119 | World Englishes | Wiley-Blackwell | 8832919 | 0.76 |
| 120 | Laboratory Phonology | Open Library of Humanities | 18686354, 18686346 | 0.755 |
| 121 | Intercultural Pragmatics | De Gruyter Mouton | 1613365X, 1612295X | 0.751 |
| 122 | IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15581500, 03611434 | 0.749 |
| 123 | International Journal of Bilingualism | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13670069 | 0.749 |
| 124 | Journal of Fluency Disorders | Elsevier Inc. | 0094730X, 1873801X | 0.746 |
| 125 | Discourse | Routledge | 01596306, 14693739 | 0.74 |
| 126 | International Journal of Learner Corpus Research | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22151486, 22151478 | 0.732 |
| 127 | Linguistics | De Gruyter Mouton | 00243949, 1613396X | 0.732 |
| 128 | Journal of World Languages | De Gruyter Mouton | 21698252, 21698260 | 0.729 |
| 129 | International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders | Wiley-Blackwell | 13682822, 14606984 | 0.727 |
| 130 | Topics in Language Disorders | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. | 15503259, 02718294 | 0.722 |
| 131 | Reading in a Foreign Language | University of Hawaii Press | 15390578 | 0.718 |
| 132 | Reading Psychology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 02702711, 15210685 | 0.717 |
| 133 | Canadian Slavonic Papers | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 85006 | 0.716 |
| 134 | Cognitive Linguistics | De Gruyter Mouton | 09365907, 16133641 | 0.706 |
| 135 | Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22131272 | 0.706 |
| 136 | Language and Linguistics Compass | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 1749818X | 0.706 |
| 137 | Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 15699862, 15692159 | 0.704 |
| 138 | First Language | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17402344, 01427237 | 0.703 |
| 139 | Applied Corpus Linguistics | Elsevier Inc. | 26667991 | 0.7 |
| 140 | Interactional Linguistics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 26664224, 26664232 | 0.697 |
| 141 | Research in the Teaching of English | National Council of Teachers of English | 0034527X, 19432348 | 0.697 |
| 142 | Journal of Applied Communication Research | Routledge | 14795752, 00909882 | 0.696 |
| 143 | Classroom Discourse | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19463014, 19463022 | 0.693 |
| 144 | Pragmatics and Society | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18789722, 18789714 | 0.687 |
| 145 | Glossa | Open Library of Humanities | 23971835 | 0.686 |
| 146 | Argumentation | Springer Netherlands | 15728374, 0920427X | 0.679 |
| 147 | Language and Intercultural Communication | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14708477 | 0.674 |
| 148 | Language Testing in Asia | SpringerOpen | 22290443 | 0.673 |
| 149 | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Wiley-Blackwell | 10551360 | 0.666 |
| 150 | Translation and Interpreting Studies | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 19322798, 18762700 | 0.666 |
| 151 | International Journal of Listening | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10904018, 1932586X | 0.665 |
| 152 | Language and Communication | Elsevier Ltd | 2715309 | 0.664 |
| 153 | Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory | De Gruyter Mouton | 16137027, 16137035 | 0.657 |
| 154 | English Language and Linguistics | Cambridge University Press | 13606743, 14694379 | 0.652 |
| 155 | Multilingua | De Gruyter Mouton | 01678507, 16133684 | 0.651 |
| 156 | Communication Reports | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 8934215 | 0.65 |
| 157 | Lingua | Elsevier B.V. | 243841 | 0.648 |
| 158 | Language and Cognition | Cambridge University Press | 18669808, 18669859 | 0.64 |
| 159 | Linguistic Landscape | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22149961, 22149953 | 0.64 |
| 160 | Linguistic Variation | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22116842, 22116834 | 0.64 |
| 161 | Phonetica | De Gruyter Mouton | 00318388, 14230321 | 0.64 |
| 162 | Gender and Language | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 1747633X, 17476321 | 0.634 |
| 163 | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | De Gruyter Mouton | 16133668, 01652516 | 0.627 |
| 164 | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 15699811, 13846655 | 0.623 |
| 165 | Argument and Computation | SAGE Publications Ltd | 19462166, 19462174 | 0.622 |
| 166 | Slovenski Jezik | ZRC SAZU, Zalozba ZRC | 15811271, 14082616 | 0.621 |
| 167 | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology | Informa Healthcare | 17549507, 17549515 | 0.614 |
| 168 | Journal of Writing Research | University of Antwerp | 22943307, 20301006 | 0.614 |
| 169 | Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 24055530, 24055522 | 0.611 |
| 170 | Mental Lexicon | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18711340, 18711375 | 0.604 |
| 171 | Linguistic Review | De Gruyter Mouton | 01676318, 16133676 | 0.602 |
| 172 | Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics | Informa Healthcare | 02699206, 14645076 | 0.601 |
| 173 | Communication Education | Routledge | 03634523, 14795795 | 0.597 |
| 174 | Journal of Quantitative Linguistics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9296174 | 0.596 |
| 175 | Literacy Research and Instruction | Routledge | 19388071, 19388063 | 0.596 |
| 176 | English World-Wide | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1728865 | 0.593 |
| 177 | Revista Tradumatica | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | 15787559 | 0.593 |
| 178 | Diachronica | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 01764225, 15699714 | 0.591 |
| 179 | Translation and Interpreting | University of Western Sydneys | 18369324 | 0.59 |
| 180 | Language Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 3880001 | 0.587 |
| 181 | CALICO Journal | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 20569017 | 0.586 |
| 182 | Reading Teacher | Wiley-Blackwell | 340561 | 0.584 |
| 183 | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education | Springer Science + Business Media | 23635169 | 0.583 |
| 184 | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | Springer Netherlands | 15728560, 09258558 | 0.575 |
| 185 | Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research | Urmia University | 23221291 | 0.574 |
| 186 | Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural | Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural | 19897553, 11355948 | 0.57 |
| 187 | Linguistics Vanguard | De Gruyter Mouton | 2199174X | 0.568 |
| 188 | Journal of Second Language Studies | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25423835, 25423843 | 0.567 |
| 189 | Asian Englishes | Routledge | 13488678, 23312548 | 0.565 |
| 190 | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press | 251003 | 0.563 |
| 191 | Public Relations Inquiry | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20461488, 2046147X | 0.561 |
| 192 | Morphology | Springer Netherlands | 18715656, 18715621 | 0.56 |
| 193 | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval | Ubiquity Press | 25143298 | 0.56 |
| 194 | Journal of China Tourism Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19388160, 19388179 | 0.558 |
| 195 | Catalan Journal of Linguistics | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | 16956885 | 0.557 |
| 196 | English Teaching and Learning | National Taiwan Normal University | 10237267 | 0.557 |
| 197 | English Teaching | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 11758708 | 0.555 |
| 198 | Teaching English with Technology | University of Nicosia | 16421027 | 0.555 |
| 199 | Biosemiotics | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 18751342, 18751350 | 0.554 |
| 200 | Journal of Neurolinguistics | Elsevier Ltd | 18738052, 09116044 | 0.552 |