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 | 4.12 |
| 2 | Artificial Intelligence Review | Springer Netherlands | 02692821, 15737462 | 3.638 |
| 3 | Assessing Writing | Elsevier Ltd | 10752935 | 2.972 |
| 4 | Communication Theory | Wiley-Blackwell | 14682885, 10503293 | 2.794 |
| 5 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | Elsevier B.V. | 27727661 | 2.794 |
| 6 | RELC Journal | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1745526X, 00336882 | 2.781 |
| 7 | ReCALL | Cambridge University Press | 09583440, 14740109 | 2.623 |
| 8 | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge University Press | 02722631, 14701545 | 2.507 |
| 9 | Language Teaching | Cambridge University Press | 02614448, 14753049 | 2.494 |
| 10 | System | Elsevier Ltd | 0346251X | 2.45 |
| 11 | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge University Press | 14716356, 02671905 | 2.374 |
| 12 | Journal of Second Language Writing | Elsevier Ltd | 10603743 | 2.319 |
| 13 | Communication Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00936502, 15523810 | 2.304 |
| 14 | TESOL Quarterly | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 00398322, 15457249 | 2.23 |
| 15 | Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | Adam Mickiewicz University | 20835205, 20841965 | 2.229 |
| 16 | Applied Linguistics | Oxford University Press | 01426001, 1477450X | 2.207 |
| 17 | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | MIT Press | 2307387X | 2.144 |
| 18 | Modern Language Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 15404781, 00267902 | 2.095 |
| 19 | Journal of Communication | Wiley-Blackwell | 00219916, 14602466 | 2.08 |
| 20 | Language Teaching Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13621688, 14770954 | 2.05 |
| 21 | Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17501237, 17501229 | 1.879 |
| 22 | Computational Linguistics | MIT Press | 08912017, 15309312 | 1.837 |
| 23 | Annual Review of Linguistics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23339683, 23339691 | 1.824 |
| 24 | Language Learning | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14679922, 00238333 | 1.754 |
| 25 | Human Communication Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 03603989, 14682958 | 1.751 |
| 26 | Journal of Memory and Language | Academic Press Inc. | 10960821, 0749596X | 1.747 |
| 27 | Cognitive Psychology | Academic Press Inc. | 10955623, 00100285 | 1.732 |
| 28 | Applied Linguistics Review | De Gruyter Mouton | 18686303, 18686311 | 1.698 |
| 29 | ELT Journal | Oxford University Press | 14774526, 09510893 | 1.676 |
| 30 | Cognition | Elsevier B.V. | 18737838, 00100277 | 1.606 |
| 31 | Language Learning and Technology | 10943501 | 1.561 | |
| 32 | Computational Communication Research | Amsterdam University Press | 26659085 | 1.542 |
| 33 | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | Routledge | 1434632 | 1.51 |
| 34 | Mind and Language | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14680017, 02681064 | 1.489 |
| 35 | Journal of English for Academic Purposes | Elsevier B.V. | 14751585 | 1.445 |
| 36 | European Journal of Communication | SAGE Publications Ltd | 02673231, 14603705 | 1.404 |
| 37 | Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press | 26414368 | 1.371 |
| 38 | Linguistic Inquiry | MIT Press | 15309150, 00243892 | 1.352 |
| 39 | Sinus Persicus | Tissaphernes Archaeological Research Group | 3041993X, 30419948 | 1.34 |
| 40 | Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18799272, 18799264 | 1.327 |
| 41 | Open Mind | MIT Press | 24702986 | 1.314 |
| 42 | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13670050 | 1.307 |
| 43 | Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier B.V. | 43702 | 1.295 |
| 44 | Language Testing | SAGE Publications Ltd | 02655322, 14770946 | 1.291 |
| 45 | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge University Press | 14691817, 01427164 | 1.289 |
| 46 | Applied Corpus Linguistics | Elsevier Inc. | 26667991 | 1.288 |
| 47 | Language and Education | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9500782 | 1.281 |
| 48 | Journal of Phonetics | Academic Press | 00954470, 10958576 | 1.272 |
| 49 | Natural Language Processing Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 29497191 | 1.266 |
| 50 | Teaching English with Technology | University of Nicosia | 16421027 | 1.244 |
| 51 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition | American Psychological Association | 19391285, 02787393 | 1.219 |
| 52 | Reading and Writing | Springer Netherlands | 09224777, 15730905 | 1.206 |
| 53 | Topics in Cognitive Science | Wiley-Blackwell | 17568765, 17568757 | 1.193 |
| 54 | Language Assessment Quarterly | Routledge | 15434303, 15434311 | 1.189 |
| 55 | Discourse and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14603624, 09579265 | 1.188 |
| 56 | Language, Culture and Curriculum | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 7908318 | 1.184 |
| 57 | Linguistics and Philosophy | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 15730549, 01650157 | 1.175 |
| 58 | Bilingualism | Cambridge University Press | 14691841, 13667289 | 1.173 |
| 59 | International Journal of Applied Linguistics | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 08026106, 14734192 | 1.169 |
| 60 | Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | 01611461, 15589129 | 1.167 |
| 61 | Journal of English-Medium Instruction | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 26668890, 26668882 | 1.134 |
| 62 | English for Specific Purposes | Elsevier B.V. | 8894906 | 1.133 |
| 63 | International Journal of Multilingualism | Routledge | 14790718 | 1.127 |
| 64 | Language Learning Journal | Routledge | 09571736, 17532167 | 1.111 |
| 65 | International Multilingual Research Journal | Routledge | 19313160, 19313152 | 1.102 |
| 66 | Journal of Pragmatics | Elsevier B.V. | 3782166 | 1.096 |
| 67 | Translation Spaces (The Netherlands) | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113711, 2211372X | 1.085 |
| 68 | Language Awareness | Routledge | 17477565, 09658416 | 1.08 |
| 69 | IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG | 0019042X, 16134141 | 1.068 |
| 70 | Asian Englishes | Routledge | 13488678, 23312548 | 1.061 |
| 71 | Journal of Politeness Research | De Gruyter Mouton | 16125681, 16134877 | 1.049 |
| 72 | Journal of Audiovisual Translation | European Association for Studies in Screen Translation | 26179148 | 1.047 |
| 73 | Second Language Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14770326, 02676583 | 1.035 |
| 74 | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | 0736587X | 1.034 |
| 75 | Classroom Discourse | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19463014, 19463022 | 0.988 |
| 76 | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies | Routledge | 15427595, 15427587 | 0.984 |
| 77 | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education | Springer Science + Business Media | 23635169 | 0.972 |
| 78 | ESP Today | University of Belgrade | 23349050 | 0.967 |
| 79 | Linguistic Typology | De Gruyter Mouton | 14300532, 1613415X | 0.954 |
| 80 | Translation, Cognition and Behavior | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25425285, 25425277 | 0.953 |
| 81 | Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory | De Gruyter Mouton | 16137027, 16137035 | 0.946 |
| 82 | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 15699811, 13846655 | 0.946 |
| 83 | Language Policy | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 15731863, 15684555 | 0.945 |
| 84 | Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice | Routledge | 0907676X, 17476623 | 0.935 |
| 85 | Discourse Processes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0163853X, 15326950 | 0.928 |
| 86 | Current Issues in Language Planning | Routledge | 14664208, 17477506 | 0.921 |
| 87 | Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics | Springer New York | 1943393X, 19433921 | 0.92 |
| 88 | Language Testing in Asia | SpringerOpen | 22290443 | 0.918 |
| 89 | Linguistics and Education | Elsevier Ltd | 8985898 | 0.914 |
| 90 | TESOL Journal | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 19493533, 10567941 | 0.914 |
| 91 | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge University Press | 03050009, 14697602 | 0.91 |
| 92 | Computers and Composition | Elsevier Ltd | 87554615 | 0.902 |
| 93 | Poetics | Elsevier B.V. | 0304422X | 0.896 |
| 94 | Language in Society | Cambridge University Press | 14698013, 00474045 | 0.889 |
| 95 | Metaphor and Symbol | Psychology Press Ltd | 15327868, 10926488 | 0.888 |
| 96 | Language and Intercultural Communication | Routledge | 1747759X, 14708477 | 0.884 |
| 97 | Language | Linguistic Society of America | 15350665, 00978507 | 0.883 |
| 98 | Translation Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14781700, 17512921 | 0.874 |
| 99 | Communication Monographs | Routledge | 03637751, 14795787 | 0.865 |
| 100 | Interpreting | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1569982X, 13846647 | 0.864 |
| 101 | Spanish Journal of Psychology | Cambridge University Press | 19882904, 11387416 | 0.861 |
| 102 | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | 10580360, 15589110 | 0.854 |
| 103 | Russian Journal of Linguistics | RUDN University | 26868024, 26870088 | 0.847 |
| 104 | Discourse and Communication | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17504813, 17504821 | 0.845 |
| 105 | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience | Routledge | 23273801, 23273798 | 0.845 |
| 106 | Brain and Language | Academic Press Inc. | 10902155, 0093934X | 0.841 |
| 107 | Linguistic Review | De Gruyter Mouton | 01676318, 16133676 | 0.84 |
| 108 | Interpreter and Translator Trainer | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1750399X, 17570417 | 0.837 |
| 109 | International Journal of Bilingualism | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13670069, 17566878 | 0.836 |
| 110 | International Journal of Lexicography | Oxford University Press | 09503846, 14774577 | 0.833 |
| 111 | First Language | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17402344, 01427237 | 0.83 |
| 112 | Journal of Sociolinguistics | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13606441, 14679841 | 0.83 |
| 113 | World Englishes | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 1467971X, 08832919 | 0.827 |
| 114 | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | 10924388, 15589102 | 0.82 |
| 115 | Cognitive Linguistics | De Gruyter Mouton | 09365907, 16133641 | 0.819 |
| 116 | Signs and Society | Cambridge University Press | 23264497, 23264489 | 0.819 |
| 117 | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526526, 0261927X | 0.814 |
| 118 | Journal of Fluency Disorders | Elsevier Inc. | 0094730X, 1873801X | 0.812 |
| 119 | International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders | Wiley-Blackwell | 13682822, 14606984 | 0.806 |
| 120 | English World-Wide | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 15699730, 01728865 | 0.802 |
| 121 | Online Media and Global Communication | De Gruyter Mouton | 27499049 | 0.797 |
| 122 | Target | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 9241884 | 0.795 |
| 123 | Journal of English as a Lingua Franca | De Gruyter Mouton | 21919216, 2191933X | 0.794 |
| 124 | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15481395, 10551360 | 0.793 |
| 125 | Language Learning and Development | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15475441, 15473341 | 0.793 |
| 126 | Language Acquisition | Psychology Press Ltd | 15327817, 10489223 | 0.788 |
| 127 | Foreign Language Annals | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 19449720, 0015718X | 0.783 |
| 128 | Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 15699862, 15692159 | 0.773 |
| 129 | Journal of Specialised Translation | University of Roehampton | 1740357X | 0.767 |
| 130 | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | Springer Netherlands | 0167806X, 15730859 | 0.758 |
| 131 | International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching | IGI Global Publishing | 21557101, 21557098 | 0.757 |
| 132 | Journal of World Languages | De Gruyter Mouton | 21698252, 21698260 | 0.752 |
| 133 | Conference on Machine Translation - Proceedings | Association for Computational Linguistics | 27680983 | 0.752 |
| 134 | Journal of the European Second Language Association | White Rose University Press | 23999101 | 0.751 |
| 135 | Reading and Writing Quarterly | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15210693, 10573569 | 0.751 |
| 136 | Literacy Research and Instruction | Routledge | 19388071, 19388063 | 0.746 |
| 137 | International Journal of Audiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14992027, 17088186 | 0.745 |
| 138 | Discourse | Routledge | 01596306, 14693739 | 0.744 |
| 139 | Quarterly Journal of Speech | Routledge | 00335630, 14795779 | 0.742 |
| 140 | Journal of Language, Identity and Education | Routledge | 15327701, 15348458 | 0.738 |
| 141 | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge University Press | 14698021, 09543945 | 0.736 |
| 142 | Technology in Language Teaching and Learning | Castledown Publishers | 26521687 | 0.725 |
| 143 | Social Semiotics | Routledge | 10350330, 14701219 | 0.722 |
| 144 | Journal of Semantics | Oxford University Press | 01675133, 14774593 | 0.715 |
| 145 | Multilingua | De Gruyter Mouton | 01678507, 16133684 | 0.715 |
| 146 | Syntax | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13680005, 14679612 | 0.71 |
| 147 | Aphasiology | Routledge | 14645041, 02687038 | 0.706 |
| 148 | Journal of Communication Disorders | Elsevier Inc. | 00219924, 18737994 | 0.706 |
| 149 | Australian Journal of Language and Literacy | Springer | 10381562, 18394728 | 0.699 |
| 150 | Across Languages and Cultures | Akademiai Kiado | 15882519, 15851923 | 0.695 |
| 151 | Biosemiotics | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 18751342, 18751350 | 0.693 |
| 152 | Laboratory Phonology | Open Library of Humanities | 18686354, 18686346 | 0.688 |
| 153 | Materialy po Arkheologii i Istorii Antichnogo i Srednevekovogo Prichernomor'ya | Cimmeria Publishing | 27132021 | 0.683 |
| 154 | International Journal of Listening | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10904018, 1932586X | 0.676 |
| 155 | Research on Language and Social Interaction | Routledge | 08351813, 15327973 | 0.675 |
| 156 | Applied Ontology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 18758533, 15705838 | 0.674 |
| 157 | Journal of Language and Sexuality | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113770, 22113789 | 0.672 |
| 158 | Journalism and Media | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26735172 | 0.672 |
| 159 | TESL-EJ | Editorial Board TESL - EJ | 10724303 | 0.658 |
| 160 | Glossa | Open Library of Humanities | 23971835 | 0.649 |
| 161 | Linguistics | De Gruyter Mouton | 00243949, 1613396X | 0.647 |
| 162 | Linguistic Landscape | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22149961, 22149953 | 0.644 |
| 163 | Constructions and Frames | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18761933, 18761941 | 0.641 |
| 164 | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge University Press | 14697742, 00222267 | 0.639 |
| 165 | Language Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 3880001 | 0.639 |
| 166 | Translator | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17570409, 13556509 | 0.633 |
| 167 | Morphology | Springer Netherlands | 18715656, 18715621 | 0.627 |
| 168 | Reading Teacher | Wiley-Blackwell | 340561 | 0.627 |
| 169 | Language and Communication | Elsevier Ltd | 2715309 | 0.626 |
| 170 | Intercultural Pragmatics | De Gruyter Mouton | 1613365X, 1612295X | 0.624 |
| 171 | Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 18337139, 01550640 | 0.62 |
| 172 | Communication Reports | Routledge | 17451043, 08934215 | 0.62 |
| 173 | Journal of Second Language Studies | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25423835, 25423843 | 0.62 |
| 174 | Argumentation | Springer Netherlands | 15728374, 0920427X | 0.618 |
| 175 | Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity | KeAi Communications Co. | 25889338 | 0.617 |
| 176 | Language and Cognition | Cambridge University Press | 18669808, 18669859 | 0.613 |
| 177 | ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium) | Peeters Publishers | 17831490, 00190829 | 0.611 |
| 178 | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology | Informa Healthcare | 17549507, 17549515 | 0.609 |
| 179 | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | Springer New York | 15736555, 00906905 | 0.601 |
| 180 | Speech Communication | Elsevier B.V. | 1676393 | 0.6 |
| 181 | Discourse Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614456, 14617080 | 0.599 |
| 182 | Literacy | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 17414369, 17414350 | 0.596 |
| 183 | Journal of Quantitative Linguistics | Routledge | 09296174, 17445035 | 0.593 |
| 184 | Diachronica | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 01764225, 15699714 | 0.592 |
| 185 | Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research | Urmia University | 23221291 | 0.578 |
| 186 | Language and Linguistics Compass | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 1749818X | 0.578 |
| 187 | Journal of Literacy Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1086296X, 15548430 | 0.575 |
| 188 | Internet Pragmatics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25423851, 2542386X | 0.574 |
| 189 | Language Resources and Evaluation | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 1574020X, 15740218 | 0.574 |
| 190 | Translation and Interpreting Studies | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 19322798, 18762700 | 0.572 |
| 191 | English Teaching | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 11758708 | 0.569 |
| 192 | Applied Pragmatics | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 2589109X, 25891103 | 0.567 |
| 193 | International Journal of Learner Corpus Research | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22151486, 22151478 | 0.565 |
| 194 | Porta Linguarum | Universidad de Granada | 16977467 | 0.565 |
| 195 | Sign Systems Studies | University of Tartu Press | 14064243, 17367409 | 0.565 |
| 196 | JALT CALL Journal | Castledown Publishers | 18324215 | 0.564 |
| 197 | South African Journal of Communication Disorders | AOSIS (Pty) Ltd | 03798046, 22254765 | 0.564 |
| 198 | Lingua | Elsevier B.V. | 243841 | 0.563 |
| 199 | Journal for Multicultural Education | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 20535368, 2053535X | 0.56 |
| 200 | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press | 14753502, 00251003 | 0.56 |
| 201 | Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Uhingu Aastaraamat | Estonian Association Applied Linguists | 22280677, 17362563 | 0.554 |
| 202 | Journal of China Tourism Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19388160, 19388179 | 0.554 |
| 203 | Natural Language Semantics | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 0925854X, 1572865X | 0.554 |
| 204 | English Today | Cambridge University Press | 02660784, 14740567 | 0.553 |
| 205 | Canadian Slavonic Papers | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23752475, 00085006 | 0.546 |
| 206 | Reading Psychology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 02702711, 15210685 | 0.546 |
| 207 | TASK | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 26661756, 26661748 | 0.54 |
| 208 | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography | SAGE Publications Inc. | 08912416, 15525414 | 0.539 |
| 209 | Probus | De Gruyter Mouton | 16134079, 09214771 | 0.538 |
| 210 | Contrastive Pragmatics | Brill Academic Publishers | 26660385, 26660393 | 0.536 |