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Journals for “Second Language Learning and Teaching”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education John Benjamins Publishing Company · The Netherlands | 100% | 52.7 | #17,641 | 95 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Language Learning in Higher Education De Gruyter · Germany | 85% | 55.5 | #15,762 | 165 | 41% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Journal of English-Medium Instruction John Benjamins Publishing Company · The Netherlands | 90% | 45.6 | #22,984 | 59 | 25% | Not recorded |
| 4 | European Journal of Language Policy Liverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 85% | 43.3 | #25,057 | 87 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Language Learning Journal Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 70% | 68.2 | #7,884 | 252 | 47% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Current Issues in Language Planning Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 69% | 66.3 | #9,034 | 200 | 37% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University · Poland · DOAJ | 63% | 73.9 | #4,635 | 175 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras Rovira i Virgili University · Spain | 68% | 63.8 | #10,526 | 439 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 9 | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Routledge · United Kingdom | 62% | 71.2 | #6,100 | 443 | 36% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes University of Pisa · Serbia | 71% | 53.7 | #16,963 | 276 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 11 | AILA Review John Benjamins Publishing Company · The Netherlands | 64% | 66.0 | #9,190 | 99 | 25% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Language Culture and Curriculum Routledge · United Kingdom | 63% | 67.9 | #8,023 | 143 | 36% | Not recorded |
| 13 | International Journal of TESOL Studies United Kingdom · DOAJ | 66% | 61.0 | #12,340 | 234 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 14 | RELC Journal SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 57% | 77.0 | #3,280 | 345 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 58% | 73.2 | #5,029 | 381 | 25% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Journal of English as a Lingua Franca De Gruyter · Germany | 68% | 52.4 | #17,797 | 89 | 35% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Mextesol journal. Asociación Mexicana de Maestros de Inglés · Mexico · DOAJ | 69% | 50.6 | #19,040 | 317 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 18 | International Multilingual Research Journal Taylor & Francis · United States | 60% | 65.7 | #9,358 | 119 | 24% | Not recorded |
| 19 | TESOL Journal Wiley · United States | 57% | 69.7 | #6,944 | 477 | 48% | Not recorded |
| 20 | EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages E-JournALL · United States · DOAJ | 71% | 44.6 | #23,825 | 93 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 21 | TESOL in context Deakin University · DOAJ | 71% | 43.9 | #24,534 | 107 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 22 | PASAA | 68% | 47.8 | #21,196 | 148 | 40% | Not recorded |
| 23 | PROFILE Issues in Teachers Professional Development National University of Colombia · Colombia · DOAJ | 59% | 64.0 | #10,403 | 146 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies University of Jyväskylä · Finland · DOAJ | 68% | 47.9 | #21,099 | 105 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 25 | HOW ASOCOPI · Colombia · DOAJ | 69% | 45.9 | #22,719 | 128 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Language and Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 54% | 72.5 | #5,382 | 327 | 39% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Language Teaching Research SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 51% | 77.1 | #3,241 | 729 | 33% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Language Teaching Research Quarterly Türkiye | 58% | 61.5 | #11,974 | 328 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 29 | TASK Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning John Benjamins Publishing Company · The Netherlands | 65% | 48.9 | #20,337 | 86 | 40% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Journal for Language Teaching African Journals OnLine · South Africa | 67% | 44.7 | #23,802 | 122 | 100% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.