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Sprogmuseet.dk has obtained the ranked lists of scientific journals that the Ministry of Science wants to keep secret.
The Ministry had asked hundreds of scientists from all disciplines to come up with a list of all scientific journals. Ten percent were to be ranked top journals: publishing in those would provide more money for the universities. After a few days already, the lists were removed from the Ministry’s website, because they met with sharp criticism in the media. Sprogmuseet.dk now reveals which of the the language-related journals are ranked highest.
We compiled a list of the linguistic journals that are ranked 2, i.e. the higher ranked journals. The journal list contains some 18.000 scientific journals, of which some 2..800 have received the higher ranking, and the rest ranking 1. We estimate that there are all in all some 1.000 journals on linguistics, and I have searched through the higher-ranked linguistics journals using the following search strings:
- LANG, LING, SPR, PHILOL, FILOL, PHON, FON, MORPH, TICS, LEX, DIAL
For Scandinavia also:
- SCAN, SKAN, DAN, NORDI
In addition, I spotted some additional journals with titles like Diachronica, which I of course added, but I have not systematically browsed all of the 2800 high ranked journals to find all top-ranked linguistic journals.
The lists were criticized in the short period they were available for the general public, for favoring English-language journals and for discriminating against publications in the Danish language. With nine Scandinavian journals in the top list (6 %), and 30 additional journals in languages other than English (20 %), I think this criticism is exaggerated, with a quarter of the journals in non-English languages.
There are 150 linguistic journals on the top list. Of course I do not know all of them, and there will probably be errors in my selection. In my view this list provides a wide choice of journals for preferred publication.
It is easy to criticize the choice that the linguistics committee has made – and any other committee would have been criticized, for mostly similar reasons. Here are some of those points of criticism.
- Some choices for particular titles are arbitrary: for instance, high quality journals on creoles, Amerindian and Oceanic languages are listed, but none at all on, for example, Sinitic, Arabic, Tibeto-Burman or African languages, some of which have the same quality as the listed ones.
- The list of top journals contains some periodicals that I at least have never heard of and seem rather idiosyncratic. What about Language Resources and Evaluation or Iconicity in Language and Literature? Never heard of, and quite specialized.
- The only journal specialized on Latin in the top list is on medieval rather than classical Latin: Filologia Mediolatina: Rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini. Also a title that does not seem to rock the world when a huge scientific breaktrough is revealed there.
- Some are not journals but book series titles: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. And also, it appears, Iconicity in Language and Literature.
- Not all fields are represented proportionally. Some fields of research have all the journals in their field listed (at least as far as I know), such as sign language studies: both existing journals are listed in the top list, and the same is probably true for gender and language issues with two journals top-ranked. For historical linguistics, a much wider field, only two journals are listed as high quality journals, but in this field there are many more journals. No periodical about the history of linguistics is listed as a number-2 journal, but four lexicographic journals are.
- The full list, even though it is the most complete list of journals that I am aware of, is far from complete. It contains many more journals than the famous “Norwegian” lists and the one compiled by a committee at the European level, even when put together. I know that because I have myself provided input to the committee for linguistics, until I was tired of it and after having added perhaps one hundred titles of journals from a source to an earlier list of linguistic journals that the committee had. I quit adding when I reached the letter M when the feeling of executing useless work became overwhelming. I do not want to look for these missing titles now. In stead, I can give an impression of how much is missing by comparing the Directory/Annuaire of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals and the Ministry’s list. In this Directory, 18 journals beginning with “Canadian” are listed. One of those received a ranking “2”, 13 received a ranking “1” and four are missing from the Ministry’s list, that is, almost a quarter. There is no reason to believe that this is not representative. One of the best Danish journals, Dansk Talesprog, is for example lacking completely from the Danish lists.
- Quite a few journals in the 1-list are listed several times in the list: Rask, Nieuwe Westindische Gids /NWIG. Or, outside linguistics: Rangeland Ecology & Management, and several others. OK, some apparently have two sets of ISSN numbers, but not all of them do.
- One can find publications in the list such as 0267-5498 Linguistics Abstracts, but this journal just publish abstracts of articles published elsewhere, they do not accept submissions.
Whoever would have been on the committee, would have made omissions and errors, which is unavoidable in such a gigantic task. On the positive side: the Ministry had said that 10 % of the journals could be top-ranked. If my estimates are correct, the actual percentage of journals ranked “2” is actually 50 % higher, namely a little over 15 %.
Despite these criticisms, I am probably more positive about the list than many other university teachers/researchers. Such lists will always disappoint some people. Like all other researchers, I wonder why certain good journals are excluded and other unknown ones are included. In contrast to some other lists, however, this list does not favour particular theoretical frameworks, or publications in a certain language, or geographical areas. From this place, I like to congratulate the committee with the results. If the other fields are covered in a similarly representative way, it is not bad at all.
Technical information
In the alphabetical list below, the first number is the code given to the journal by the Ministry. The second set of numbers, eight digits with a hyphen in the middle, are ISSN numbers, the international codes for serial publications.
I have marked journals published in Scandinavia with red letters, and journals publishing primarily in languages other than English underlined.
- 2745 0164-0925 ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
- 13815 0374-0364 Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. Int. Journal of Structural Linguistics
- 15897 0002-9475 American Journal of Philology
- 6663 0340-5222 Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
- 149303 0954-9927 Anglo-Norman Studies
- 11830 0003-5483 Anthropological Linguistics
- 12136 0257-9774 Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde
- 7229 0142-6001 Applied Linguistics
- 16894 0142-7164 Applied Psycholinguistics
- 6173 0066-7668 Arkiv för nordisk filologi
- 8682 0726-8602 Australian Journal of Linguistics
- 15408 0005-8076 Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur
- 8063 1366-7289 Bilingualism – Language and Cognition
- 8449 0007-9871 Cahiers de Lexicologie – Revue Int. de Lexicologie et Lexicographie
- 1287 0009-837X Classical Philology
- 5585 0009-8388 Classical Quarterly
- 2721 0009-840X Classical Review
- 16995 0269-9206 Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
- 8916 0936-5907 Cognitive Linguistics
- 8202 0891-2017 Computational linguistics – Ass. for Computational Linguistics
- 6193 0885-2308 Computer Speech and Language
- 12353 1613-7027 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- 14926 0304-0763 Current issues in linguistic theory
- 10924 0106-4525 Danske Studier
- 2980 0011-9741 Deutsch als Fremdsprache
- 12021 0340-9341 Deutsche Sprache
- 11002 0176-4225 Diachronica
- 8651 1875-1792 Dialogue Studies
- 13652 0376-401X Die Sprache
- 4027 1076-9242 Dyslexia
- 86 1360-6743 English Language and Linguistics
- 14559 0013-8282 English Language Notes
- 8037 0013-838X English Studies: A Journal of English Language
- 14871 1017-3285 Fachsprache
- 11022 1124-0008 Filologia Mediolatina: Rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini
- 16990 0165-4004 Folia Linguistica
- 20425 1747-6321 Gender and Language
- 11591 0017-1298 Glotta : Zeitschrift für Griechische und Lateinische Sprache
- 8829 0073-0688 Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
- 3036 0018-0777 Hermes – Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie
- 14060 0935-3518 Historische Sprachforschung
- 4840 1873-5037 Iconicity in Language and Literature
- 11916 1558-7916 IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
- 2567 0020-7071 International Journal of American Linguistics
- 7699 0802-6106 International Journal of Applied Linguistics
- 363 1367-0069 International Journal of Bilingualism
- 14510 0950-3846 International Journal of Lexicography
- 858 0165-2516 International Journal of the Sociology of Language
- 26245 1479-7887 Journal of Applied Linguistics
- 11955 0363-6941 Journal of English and Germanic Philology
- 12656 1475-1585 Journal of English for Academic Purposes
- 7752 0075-4242 Journal of English Linguistics
- 444 0305-0009 Journal of Child Language
- 4162 0959-2695 Journal of French Language Studies
- 475 1566-5852 Journal of Historical Pragmatics
- 1436 1055-1360 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
- 9649 0022-2267 Journal of Linguistics
- 12596 0925-8531 Journal of Logic, Language and Information
- 3920 0749-596X Journal of Memory and Language
- 14231 0143-4632 Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
- 12122 0911-6044 Journal of Neurolinguistics
- 16240 0095-4470 Journal of Phonetics
- 11555 0920-9034 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
- 14632 0378-2166 Journal of Pragmatics
- 4006 0167-5133 Journal of Semantics
- 982 1068-2090 Journal of Slavic Linguistics
- 9217 1360-6441 Journal of Sociolinguistics
- 10179 1092-4388 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- 6249 0025-1003 Journal of the International Phonetic Association
- 27179 0901-9731 Københavnerstudier i tosprogethed
- 11319 0458-7251 Langage et l’Homme
- 9050 0458-726X Langages
- 2920 0271-5309 Language & Communication
- 1244 0097-8507 Language (Washington)
- 12164 0169-0965 Language and Cognitive Processes
- 15993 1749-818X Language and Linguistics Compass
- 13138 0963-9470 Language and Literature
- 13327 0023-8309 Language and Speech
- 328 0047-4045 Language in Society
- 4697 0023-8333 Language Learning
- 7243 1574-020X Language Resources and Evaluation
- 2424 0388-0001 Language Sciences
- 2244 0954-3945 Language Variation and Change
- 1087 0790-8318 Language, Culture and Curriculum
- 4750 0023-8368 Langue Francaise
- 2296 0175-6206 Lexicographica : Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie
- 5630 0049-8653 Lili – Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
- 15977 0024-3841 Lingua
- 2781 0098-9053 Linguistic Analysis
- 4369 1537-0852 Linguistic Discovery
- 5564 0024-3892 Linguistic Inquiry
- 3688 0167-6318 Linguistic Review
- 10056 1430-0532 Linguistic Typology
- 1411 0024-3949 Linguistics
- 13492 1011-3261 Linguistics and Philology / Yuyan Wenzixue
- 2369 0024-3930 Linguistische Berichte
- 15561 0268-1064 Mind & Language
- 9371 0026-7902 Modern Language Journal
- 12159 0026-7929 Modern Language Quarterly
- 16497 0026-7937 Modern Language Review
- 12366 1871-5621 Morphology
- 7331 0167-806X Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- 2047 1351-3249 Natural Language Engineering
- 279 0925-854X Natural Language Semantics
- 2644 0028-2677 Neophilologus
- 4290 0332-5865 Nordic Journal of Linguistics
- 130530 0106-8040 NyS. Nydanske Studier og Almen Kommunikationsteori
- 3539 0029-8115 Oceanic Linguistics
- 10627 0031-8388 Phonetica
- 3446 0952-6757 Phonology
- 7759 1018-2101 Pragmatics – Quarterly Publication of the Int. Pragmatics Ass.
- 9912 0929-0907 Pragmatics & Cognition
- 13075 0922-842X Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
- 1818 0048-5195 Presence Francophone
- 3160 0363-2946 Proceedings of the Ann. Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Soc.
- 16616 0030-8129 Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
- 2084 0835-1813 Research on Language and Social Interaction
- 5339 0035-8002 Romance Philology
- 2215 0035-8126 Romanische Forschungen
- 11336 0304-3487 Russian Linguistics : Int. Journal for the Study of the Russian Lang.
- 14382 0036-5653 Scandinavica – International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
- 11412 0080-6765 Scando-Slavica
- 15690 0267-6583 Second Language Research
- 15062 1387-9316 Sign Language and Linguistics
- 7320 0302-1475 Sign Language Studies
- 1547 0342-8427 Skandinavistik
- 2804 0933-1883 Sociolinguistica : Int. Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Soziolinguistik
- 3562 0942-2919 Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
- 1917 0344-8169 Sprachwissenschaft (Heidelberg)
- 19680 0390-6809 Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata
- 10927 0039-3193 Studia Linguistica
- 4076 0378-4177 Studies in Language
- 4608 1568-2706 Studies in Narrative
- 6728 0039-3738 Studies in Philology
- 6892 0272-2631 Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- 10959 1368-0005 Syntax
- 16373 0092-4563 Syntax and Semantics
- 16474 0301-4428 Theoretical Linguistics
- 16165 0040-7550 Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal- en letterkunde
- 16818 0168-2148 Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek
- 10357 0082-5433 T’oung Pao
- 15748 0042-6806 Virittäjä : Kotikielen Seuran aikakauslehti
- 1127 8755-4550 Women and Language
- 13927 0043-7956 WORD: Journal of the International Linguistic Association
- 7498 0044-1449 Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik
- 8672 0044-2747 Zeitschrift fur Franzosische Sprache und Literatur
- 16463 0044-3492 Zeitschrift fur Slavische Philologie
- 11990 0044-3506 Zeitschrift fur Slawistik
- 6672 0044-2496 Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie
- 151877 x000-0172 Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Lingvistik
Finns det inga språkrelaterade tidskrifter på spanska, portugisiska eller ryska?
Godt spørgsmål. Jeg tjekker det, og beretter senere, måske først om nogle dage.
Thank you, Per-Åke Lindblom, for your question. I answer in English for our international visitors.
Searching LENG, SPA, PORT, SLO, YAZ, JAZ, RUS, NYELV in the list brought us six more (more or less) linguistic journals:
8017 1475-3839 Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Print Edition. Liverpool, 2002)
3954 0355-1253 Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen
2397 0021-6941 Jezyk Polski
22169 0153-0313 Lengas
55417 0025-0228 Magyar Nyelv
68009 0025-0236 Magyar Nyelvor
1769 0037-7031 Slovo a Slovesnost
As far as I could see, there is NOTHING in Portuguese, Russian, Spanish in the top list. Quite surprising, actually. It could be that the Revista de Estudios Hispanicos (ranked 2) sometimes publishes linguistic articles, but I do not know the journal, I think it is purely devited to literature. The first one on the list seems to be the only hispanic journal on the list.
Even though these three global languages are NOT represented in the top list of linguistics journals, the Catalan journal Lengas is! And there is at least one Polish Journal, one Czech Journal and two in Hungarian in the top list. This can be interpreted in a positive way: the minor and new languages of the EU are stimulated, at the expense of the languages of former colonial powers.
I don’t know how to look for Chinese journals. This page:
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3310
list (only) 74 linguistic journals, but none of them is published in China.
This is a Taiwanese ranking of linguistic journals:
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/data/info/Journals%20Ranking__950421.RTF
In this list, a handful of journals in Chinese are found. I assume at all journals here are highly-ranked (even though some obvious ones are lacking).
Finally, I had missed this one as well for the earlier list, with ranking 2:
2537 0019-7262 Indogermanische Forschungen
Hej, tack för ditt svar. Jag gjorde en sökning på Google på spanska -sökord: “revistas lingüistas”. Jag fann åtminstone fyra lingvistiska tidskrfter – de två övriga tycks också innehålla artiklar om lingvistik. Jag kan inte bedöma tidskrifternas vetenskapliga kvalité. Det finns säkert fler tidskrifter, om man undersöker saken närmare.
Hello, thanks for your answer. I made a search with Google in Spanish – search word:”revistas lingüistas”. I found at least four journals on lingustics. The other seem also to contain articles about linguistics. I can not judge the scientific quality of the mentioned journals. There are certainly more linguistic journals in Spansih, but then you have to dig even deeper.
Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada – http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-48832008000100002&script=sci_arttext
Revista de Investigación Lingüística – http://revistas.um.es/ril
Revista Nebrija de Lingüística Aplicada a la Enzeñanza de las Lenguas – http://www.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/index.htm
Lingüista Española Actual – http://resh.cindoc.csic.es/ficha_rev.php?codrev=1327
Pensamiento y Cultura – http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=70111116&iCveNum=10525
Thesauros – http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/thesaurus/
Resurser för vidare undersökning/resources for further investigations:
Cervantes Institutet http://cvc.cervantes.es/, Lingüística y lengua españolas
Recursos en Internet http://www.linguas.net/portalpreseea/Inicio/tabid/441/Default.aspx
Den sista länken blev fel/The last link was wrong: http://liceu.uab.es/~joaquim/applied_linguistics/new_technologies/LengEsp_Materiales_WWW.htm
MORE TOP-RANKED JOURNALS
The following linguistic journals are also found on the highly ranked list, but they are missing in the earlier list.
8449 0007-9871 Cahiers de Lexicologie – Revue Int. de Lexicologie et Lexicographie
3205 1740-5904 Critical Discourse Studies
7757 0159-6306 Discourse – Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
4901 0957-9265 Discourse & Society
2667 1461-4456 Discourse Studies
4027 1076-9242 Dyslexia
2537 0019-7262 Indogermanische Forschungen
14510 0950-3846 International Journal of Lexicography
2296 0175-6206 Lexicographica : Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie
5060 0867-0633 Teksty Drugie
9507 1860-7330 Text & Talk (Print Edition)
3103 0105-7014 Text und Kontext
16918 0105-7065 Text und Kontext. Sonderreihe
These are some of the linguistic journals completely missing from the list of the Ministry:
Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics
Anuario del Seminario de Filologia Vasca ‘Julio de Urquijo’. International Journal of Basque Philology
Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies
Dansk Talesprog
Revue Internationale d’Etudes Basques
Romani Studies
World Englishes
The new list of journals is now accessible via:
http://www.fi.dk/forskning/den-bibliometriske-forskningsindikator/autoritetslister-for-tidsskrifter-og-forlag
(Get it before it will be removed!)