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Humanities & Arts Journals

Explore journals grouped under Humanities & Arts using the internal subject classification developed for Journals Impact Factors. This grouping is designed for journal discovery and comparison and is separate from official Journal Citation Reports categories.

Citation patterns can differ considerably between specialties. For a more meaningful comparison, use the subsubject links below and consider JIF, JCI and quartile information together with scope, readership, editorial standards and indexing.

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891Journals with JIF
95Q1 journals
6.900Highest available JIF
0.300Median available JIF
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513 journals with Q1–Q4 data
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Journal Subsubject JIF 5-Year JIF JCI Quartile Publisher
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN N/A eISSN 2307-387X
Literature & Language 6.900 10.700 5.320 Q1 MIT PRESS
Computer Assisted Language Learning
ISSN 0958-8221 eISSN 1744-3210
Literature & Language 6.600 8.500 3.760 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
ISSN 0891-2017 eISSN 1530-9312
Literature & Language 5.300 6.100 2.690 Q1 MIT PRESS
JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE
ISSN 0885-4122 eISSN 1552-6593
Literature & Language 5.200 6.200 0.920 Q1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
ISSN 0272-2631 eISSN 1470-1545
Literature & Language 4.900 5.500 2.650 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
JOURNAL OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING
ISSN 1060-3743 eISSN 1873-1422
Literature & Language 4.500 6.300 2.580 Q1 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
ISSN 0267-1905 eISSN 1471-6356
Literature & Language 4.300 5.100 3.340 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Annual Review of Linguistics
ISSN 2333-9691 eISSN 2333-9691
Literature & Language 4.300 4.700 3.360 Q1 ANNUAL REVIEWS
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ISSN 0142-6001 eISSN 1477-450X
Literature & Language 4.200 4.800 2.030 Q1 OXFORD UNIV PRESS
CURRENT HISTORY
ISSN 0011-3530 eISSN 1944-785X
History 4.200 1.900 0.790 Q1 UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS
LANGUAGE LEARNING
ISSN 0023-8333 eISSN 1467-9922
Literature & Language 4.200 5.100 1.820 Q1 WILEY
LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
ISSN 1094-3501 eISSN N/A
Literature & Language 4.100 5.600 1.880 Q1 UNIV HAWAII, NATL FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
ISSN 0026-7902 eISSN 1540-4781
Literature & Language 4.000 7.000 2.400 Q1 WILEY
Applied Linguistics Review
ISSN 1868-6303 eISSN 1868-6311
Literature & Language 3.400 3.300 2.770 Q1 WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments
ISSN 2396-9415 eISSN 2396-9415
Literature & Language 3.400 3.400 1.660 Q1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
ISSN 0003-0090 eISSN 1937-3546
History 3.400 4.400 1.210 Q1 AMER MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY
COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
ISSN 0885-2308 eISSN 1095-8363
Literature & Language 3.400 3.700 0.640 Q2 ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY
ISSN 0892-7537 eISSN 1573-7802
History 3.100 3.300 2.590 Q1 SPRINGER
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
ISSN 0749-596X eISSN 1096-0821
Literature & Language 3.000 4.200 1.320 Q1 ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
LANGUAGE SPEECH AND HEARING SERVICES IN SCHOOLS
ISSN 0161-1461 eISSN 1558-9129
Literature & Language 2.900 3.200 1.390 Q1 AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
ISSN 0142-7164 eISSN 1469-1817
Literature & Language 2.800 2.800 1.240 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Language Assessment Quarterly
ISSN 1543-4303 eISSN 1543-4311
Literature & Language 2.800 2.800 1.240 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW
ISSN 0031-8108 eISSN 1558-1470
Philosophy 2.800 4.400 4.720 N/A DUKE UNIV PRESS
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages-PACMPL
ISSN N/A eISSN 2475-1421
Literature & Language 2.800 3.300 0.820 Q2 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
Bilingualism-Language and Cognition
ISSN 1366-7289 eISSN 1469-1841
Literature & Language 2.600 3.600 1.100 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
ISSN 1360-6441 eISSN 1467-9841
Literature & Language 2.600 2.500 0.970 Q1 WILEY
LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
ISSN 0047-4045 eISSN 1469-8013
Literature & Language 2.600 2.700 1.250 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Language Testing in Asia
ISSN N/A eISSN 2229-0443
Literature & Language 2.500 2.500 1.920 Q1 SPRINGERNATURE
Language Testing
ISSN 0265-5322 eISSN 1477-0946
Literature & Language 2.400 3.100 1.840 Q1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Philosophy Compass
ISSN N/A eISSN 1747-9991
Philosophy 2.400 2.700 3.600 N/A WILEY
BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ISSN 0007-0882 eISSN 1464-3537
Philosophy 2.300 2.400 2.880 Q1 UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
Philosophical Perspectives
ISSN 1520-8583 eISSN 1758-2245
Philosophy 2.300 2.400 2.250 N/A WILEY
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
ISSN 1092-4388 eISSN 1558-9102
Literature & Language 2.200 2.800 1.140 Q1 AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
Language Awareness
ISSN 0965-8416 eISSN 1747-7565
Literature & Language 2.200 2.600 1.700 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Language Culture and Curriculum
ISSN 0790-8318 eISSN 1747-7573
Literature & Language 2.200 3.100 1.870 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Language Policy
ISSN 1568-4555 eISSN 1573-1863
Literature & Language 2.200 2.700 1.610 Q1 SPRINGER
Applied Corpus Linguistics
ISSN N/A eISSN 2666-7991
Literature & Language 2.100 1.900 1.610 Q1 ELSEVIER
Journal of Language and Sexuality
ISSN 2211-3770 eISSN 2211-3789
Literature & Language 2.100 0.000 1.420 Q1 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0963-8016 eISSN 1467-9760
Philosophy 2.100 2.400 1.090 Q2 WILEY
Language Learning Journal
ISSN 0957-1736 eISSN 1753-2167
Literature & Language 2.100 2.600 1.280 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
PHILOSOPHY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
ISSN 0048-3915 eISSN 1088-4963
Philosophy 2.100 3.100 2.400 Q2 WILEY
RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
ISSN 0835-1813 eISSN 1532-7973
Literature & Language 2.100 4.100 1.300 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Sport Ethics and Philosophy
ISSN 1751-1321 eISSN 1751-133X
Philosophy 2.100 1.900 0.720 Q2 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
ISSN 2375-4699 eISSN 2375-4702
Literature & Language 2.000 1.900 0.350 Q3 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0022-362X eISSN 1939-8549
Philosophy 2.000 1.900 2.680 N/A J PHILOSOPHY INC
EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing
ISSN 1687-4722 eISSN 1687-4722
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.900 2.000 0.460 Q2 SPRINGER
Philosophers Imprint
ISSN 1533-628X eISSN N/A
Philosophy 1.900 1.900 2.750 N/A UNIV MICHIGAN LIBRARY, MPUBLISHING
Current Issues in Language Planning
ISSN 1466-4208 eISSN 1747-7506
Literature & Language 1.800 2.700 1.420 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
ISSN 1879-4912 eISSN 1879-4920
Philosophy 1.800 1.600 1.450 Q1 SPRINGER
International Journal of Cultural Studies
ISSN 1367-8779 eISSN 1460-356X
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.800 2.400 1.810 Q1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Journal of Computer Languages
ISSN 2665-9182 eISSN 2590-1184
Literature & Language 1.800 1.800 0.580 Q3 ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Language Resources and Evaluation
ISSN 1574-020X eISSN 1574-0218
Literature & Language 1.800 2.000 0.340 Q3 SPRINGER
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
ISSN 1879-9264 eISSN 1879-9272
Literature & Language 1.800 1.900 1.700 Q1 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
MIND & LANGUAGE
ISSN 0268-1064 eISSN 1468-0017
Literature & Language 1.800 2.200 0.870 Q1 WILEY
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ISSN 0039-3681 eISSN 1879-2510
History 1.800 1.400 1.420 Q1 ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Twentieth Century British History
ISSN 0955-2359 eISSN 1477-4674
History 1.800 1.400 4.010 Q1 OXFORD UNIV PRESS
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0045-5091 eISSN 1911-0820
Philosophy 1.700 1.500 3.080 N/A CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
ISSN 1613-7027 eISSN 1613-7035
Literature & Language 1.700 2.000 1.320 Q1 DE GRUYTER MOUTON
European Journal of Cultural Studies
ISSN 1367-5494 eISSN 1460-3551
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.700 2.300 1.860 Q1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Historic Environment-Policy & Practice
ISSN 1756-7505 eISSN 1756-7513
History 1.700 1.700 2.700 N/A ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
ISSN 0802-6106 eISSN 1473-4192
Literature & Language 1.700 2.100 1.300 Q1 WILEY
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
ISSN 0305-0009 eISSN 1469-7602
Literature & Language 1.700 2.400 0.830 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
ISSN 0929-6174 eISSN 1744-5035
Literature & Language 1.700 1.600 0.950 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
JOURNAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT
ISSN 0094-8705 eISSN 1543-2939
Philosophy 1.700 1.500 0.560 Q2 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Language Variation and Change
ISSN 0954-3945 eISSN 1469-8021
Literature & Language 1.700 1.700 1.340 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
MUSICAE SCIENTIAE
ISSN 1029-8649 eISSN 2045-4147
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.700 2.100 2.140 Q3 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
ISSN 0164-0925 eISSN 1558-4593
Literature & Language 1.600 2.400 0.570 Q3 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
First Language
ISSN 0142-7237 eISSN 1740-2344
Literature & Language 1.600 1.900 1.200 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Hypatia-A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
ISSN 0887-5367 eISSN 1527-2001
Philosophy 1.600 2.000 1.460 Q2 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Journal of Global History
ISSN 1740-0228 eISSN 1740-0236
History 1.600 1.900 4.460 Q1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
ISSN 0090-6905 eISSN 1573-6555
Literature & Language 1.600 1.700 0.920 Q2 SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
ISSN 2215-1931 eISSN 2215-194X
Literature & Language 1.600 0.000 0.580 Q2 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Language and Linguistics Compass
ISSN 1749-818X eISSN 1749-818X
Literature & Language 1.600 3.100 1.910 N/A WILEY
LINGUISTIC INQUIRY
ISSN 0024-3892 eISSN 1530-9150
Literature & Language 1.600 1.900 1.280 Q2 MIT PRESS
Linguistic Typology
ISSN 1430-0532 eISSN 1613-415X
Literature & Language 1.600 2.000 1.260 Q2 WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
MUSIC PERCEPTION
ISSN 0730-7829 eISSN N/A
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.600 2.000 2.040 Q3 UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS
TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS
ISSN 0271-8294 eISSN 1550-3259
Literature & Language 1.600 2.200 0.940 Q2 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
ISSN 0197-4556 eISSN 1873-5878
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.500 1.700 0.650 Q2 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS
ISSN 0015-718X eISSN 1944-9720
Literature & Language 1.500 2.200 0.870 Q2 WILEY
International Journal of Art Therapy
ISSN 1745-4832 eISSN 1745-4840
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.500 2.000 0.750 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics
ISSN 0019-0829 eISSN 1783-1490
Literature & Language 1.500 2.300 1.700 Q2 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
LANGUAGE
ISSN 0097-8507 eISSN 1535-0665
Literature & Language 1.500 2.400 1.460 Q2 LINGUISTIC SOC AMER
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
ISSN 1478-6435 eISSN 1478-6443
Philosophy 1.500 1.500 0.280 Q3 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0004-8402 eISSN 1471-6828
Philosophy 1.400 1.400 1.900 N/A ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
ISSN 1384-6655 eISSN 1569-9811
Literature & Language 1.400 1.800 1.540 Q2 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Language and Cognition
ISSN 1866-9808 eISSN 1866-9859
Literature & Language 1.400 2.000 0.970 Q2 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Language Learning and Development
ISSN 1547-5441 eISSN 1547-3341
Literature & Language 1.400 1.600 0.870 Q2 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Linguistic Variation
ISSN 2211-6834 eISSN 2211-6842
Literature & Language 1.400 0.900 0.650 N/A JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
ISSN 0031-8205 eISSN 1933-1592
Philosophy 1.400 1.800 2.240 N/A WILEY
REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL
ISSN 0716-078X eISSN 0717-6317
History 1.400 1.600 0.320 Q3 SOC BIOLGIA CHILE
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
ISSN 0075-4242 eISSN 1552-5457
Literature & Language 1.300 1.300 0.930 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Journal of Intercultural Studies
ISSN 0725-6868 eISSN 1469-9540
Arts & Cultural Studies 1.300 1.200 0.580 Q3 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Language Acquisition
ISSN 1048-9223 eISSN 1532-7817
Literature & Language 1.300 1.300 1.070 Q2 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0165-0157 eISSN 1573-0549
Literature & Language 1.300 1.300 1.200 Q2 SPRINGER
Oral History Review
ISSN 0094-0798 eISSN 1533-8592
History 1.300 1.300 2.980 Q1 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Philosophical Papers
ISSN 0556-8641 eISSN 1996-8523
Philosophy 1.300 1.500 1.740 N/A ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
ISSN 0031-8116 eISSN 1573-0883
Philosophy 1.300 1.500 2.320 N/A SPRINGER
SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH
ISSN 0267-6583 eISSN 1477-0326
Literature & Language 1.300 2.600 0.800 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY
ISSN 0167-7411 eISSN 1572-8749
Philosophy 1.300 1.400 2.660 N/A SPRINGER
Trabajos de Prehistoria
ISSN 0082-5638 eISSN 1988-3218
History 1.300 1.200 1.400 Q2 CONSEJO SUPERIOR INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS-CSIC
Using the data

How to compare Humanities & Arts journals

A broad research area can contain specialties with very different citation patterns. Start with the most relevant subsubject, then compare JIF, five-year JIF, JCI and quartile information alongside the journal's aims and scope, indexing, editorial standards, readership and publication model.

JIF

A journal-level citation measure that is most informative when comparing journals in related fields.

JCI

A field-normalized journal metric that provides another perspective on citation impact.

Quartile

A relative position within a category. Internal subjects on this site are not official JCR categories.