Language Variation and Change

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ISSN: 09543945, 14698021

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
1.7
SJR
0.798
CiteScore
2.4
Categories
Linguistics and Language
Education
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1989-2025
journal names
Language Variation and Change
LANG VAR CHANGE
Publications
598
Citations
19 723
h-index
73
Publications
94
Citations
7 556
Top-3 citing journals
American Speech
American Speech (531 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania (27 publications)
University of York
University of York (19 publications)
Ohio State University
Ohio State University (14 publications)
University of Bern
University of Bern (4 publications)
University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury (3 publications)
University of Ottawa
University of Ottawa (3 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (216 publications)
Canada (66 publications)
United Kingdom (56 publications)
USA (23 publications)
United Kingdom (7 publications)
Canada (6 publications)

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Citing journals

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Language Variation and Change
1304 citations, 6.61%
American Speech
531 citations, 2.69%
Journal of English Linguistics
394 citations, 2%
Varieties of English Around the World
383 citations, 1.94%
Journal of Sociolinguistics
343 citations, 1.74%
Languages
305 citations, 1.55%
Journal of Phonetics
303 citations, 1.54%
English Language and Linguistics
288 citations, 1.46%
Lingua
264 citations, 1.34%
Publication of the American Dialect Society
258 citations, 1.31%
Language in Society
243 citations, 1.23%
NOWELE Supplement Series
224 citations, 1.14%
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
219 citations, 1.11%
Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
207 citations, 1.05%
Linguistics and Language Compass
206 citations, 1.04%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
193 citations, 0.98%
International Journal of Bilingualism
157 citations, 0.8%
Journal of Pragmatics
149 citations, 0.76%
World Englishes
148 citations, 0.75%
Studies in Language Variation
146 citations, 0.74%
English World-Wide
145 citations, 0.74%
Studies in Language Companion Series
143 citations, 0.73%
Linguistics Vanguard
122 citations, 0.62%
Journal of Linguistic Geography
118 citations, 0.6%
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
118 citations, 0.6%
Asia-Pacific Language Variation
114 citations, 0.58%
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
111 citations, 0.56%
Language and Speech
106 citations, 0.54%
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
105 citations, 0.53%
Frontiers in Psychology
100 citations, 0.51%
Language and Communication
100 citations, 0.51%
Spanish in Context
99 citations, 0.5%
Journal of French Language Studies
95 citations, 0.48%
Australian Journal of Linguistics
92 citations, 0.47%
Linguistics
91 citations, 0.46%
Glossa a journal of general linguistics
91 citations, 0.46%
Annual Review of Linguistics
89 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
87 citations, 0.44%
Contact Language Library
87 citations, 0.44%
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
83 citations, 0.42%
Laboratory Phonology
79 citations, 0.4%
Diachronica
77 citations, 0.39%
Linguistic Variation
72 citations, 0.37%
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
68 citations, 0.34%
Language Sciences
63 citations, 0.32%
PLoS ONE
60 citations, 0.3%
IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society
55 citations, 0.28%
Phonetica
53 citations, 0.27%
Journal of Child Language
50 citations, 0.25%
Folia Linguistica
50 citations, 0.25%
Speech Communication
49 citations, 0.25%
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
46 citations, 0.23%
Bilingualism
46 citations, 0.23%
Phonology
45 citations, 0.23%
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
44 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
44 citations, 0.22%
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
43 citations, 0.22%
Language Learning and Development
42 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Historical Linguistics
39 citations, 0.2%
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
38 citations, 0.19%
English Today
38 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Linguistics
37 citations, 0.19%
Cognition
37 citations, 0.19%
Cognitive Linguistics
34 citations, 0.17%
Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
33 citations, 0.17%
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
32 citations, 0.16%
Transactions of the Philological Society
32 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
30 citations, 0.15%
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
29 citations, 0.15%
Cognitive Science
28 citations, 0.14%
Language Learning
28 citations, 0.14%
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles
28 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Germanic Linguistics
26 citations, 0.13%
Sociolinguistic Studies
25 citations, 0.13%
Second Language Research
25 citations, 0.13%
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
25 citations, 0.13%
Language and Cognition
24 citations, 0.12%
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
22 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
21 citations, 0.11%
Topics in Cognitive Science
21 citations, 0.11%
Language Acquisition
21 citations, 0.11%
First Language
20 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Memory and Language
20 citations, 0.1%
Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
20 citations, 0.1%
Applied Linguistics
20 citations, 0.1%
Studies in Language
20 citations, 0.1%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
19 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
19 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
19 citations, 0.1%
Linguistics and Education
17 citations, 0.09%
English Studies
17 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
17 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
17 citations, 0.09%
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
16 citations, 0.08%
Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada
16 citations, 0.08%
Corpora
16 citations, 0.08%
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
16 citations, 0.08%
Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition
16 citations, 0.08%
Multilingua
15 citations, 0.08%
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
15 citations, 0.08%
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Cambridge University Press
5704 citations, 28.92%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2990 citations, 15.16%
Wiley
1716 citations, 8.7%
Elsevier
1298 citations, 6.58%
Walter de Gruyter
950 citations, 4.82%
SAGE
824 citations, 4.18%
Duke University Press
814 citations, 4.13%
Oxford University Press
567 citations, 2.87%
Taylor & Francis
508 citations, 2.58%
Springer Nature
401 citations, 2.03%
MDPI
333 citations, 1.69%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
203 citations, 1.03%
Frontiers Media S.A.
191 citations, 0.97%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
126 citations, 0.64%
Annual Reviews
123 citations, 0.62%
Open Library of Humanities
102 citations, 0.52%
Ubiquity Press
93 citations, 0.47%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
67 citations, 0.34%
OpenEdition
67 citations, 0.34%
CAIRN
57 citations, 0.29%
S. Karger AG
55 citations, 0.28%
Equinox Publishing
55 citations, 0.28%
Edinburgh University Press
48 citations, 0.24%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
44 citations, 0.22%
Consortium Erudit
44 citations, 0.22%
SciELO
27 citations, 0.14%
MIT Press
24 citations, 0.12%
American Physical Society (APS)
18 citations, 0.09%
American Psychological Association (APA)
16 citations, 0.08%
The English Linguistic Society of Japan
16 citations, 0.08%
EDP Sciences
15 citations, 0.08%
The Royal Society
14 citations, 0.07%
IOP Publishing
13 citations, 0.07%
Brill
12 citations, 0.06%
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo
12 citations, 0.06%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
12 citations, 0.06%
University of Chicago Press
11 citations, 0.06%
Nakom
11 citations, 0.06%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
11 citations, 0.06%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
10 citations, 0.05%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
10 citations, 0.05%
The Korean Society of Speech Sciences
10 citations, 0.05%
Editorial CSIC
10 citations, 0.05%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
9 citations, 0.05%
Akademiai Kiado
8 citations, 0.04%
Peeters Publishers
6 citations, 0.03%
IGI Global
6 citations, 0.03%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
6 citations, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
6 citations, 0.03%
Maney Publishing
6 citations, 0.03%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
5 citations, 0.03%
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
5 citations, 0.03%
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
5 citations, 0.03%
Masaryk University Press
5 citations, 0.03%
4 citations, 0.02%
Brazilian Society of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
4 citations, 0.02%
Hindawi Limited
4 citations, 0.02%
National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
4 citations, 0.02%
Emerald
3 citations, 0.02%
3 citations, 0.02%
Universidad De Antioquia
3 citations, 0.02%
Amsterdam University Press
3 citations, 0.02%
Journal of Language Contact Publishers
3 citations, 0.02%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
3 citations, 0.02%
World Scientific
2 citations, 0.01%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
2 citations, 0.01%
University of California Press
2 citations, 0.01%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2 citations, 0.01%
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
2 citations, 0.01%
Hacettepe University
2 citations, 0.01%
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2 citations, 0.01%
Unisa Press
2 citations, 0.01%
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
2 citations, 0.01%
Vilnius University Press
2 citations, 0.01%
Revues.org
2 citations, 0.01%
Samara National Research University
2 citations, 0.01%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
2 citations, 0.01%
Scientific Research Publishing
2 citations, 0.01%
IntechOpen
2 citations, 0.01%
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
2 citations, 0.01%
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
2 citations, 0.01%
Hans Publishers
2 citations, 0.01%
Gramota Publishing
2 citations, 0.01%
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies
2 citations, 0.01%
IOS Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Liverpool University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
American Physiological Society
1 citation, 0.01%
University of Warsaw
1 citation, 0.01%
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
1 citation, 0.01%
Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University
1 citation, 0.01%
Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
1 citation, 0.01%
Wayne State University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
1 citation, 0.01%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
Acoustical Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.01%
Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics
1 citation, 0.01%
European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
1 citation, 0.01%
Science Alert
1 citation, 0.01%
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University of Pennsylvania
27 publications, 4.52%
University of York
19 publications, 3.18%
Ohio State University
14 publications, 2.34%
University of Ottawa
14 publications, 2.34%
University of Canterbury
13 publications, 2.17%
Stanford University
13 publications, 2.17%
York University
12 publications, 2.01%
University of Edinburgh
11 publications, 1.84%
North Carolina State University
10 publications, 1.67%
Indiana University Bloomington
9 publications, 1.51%
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
9 publications, 1.51%
University of Manchester
8 publications, 1.34%
Queen Mary University of London
7 publications, 1.17%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
6 publications, 1%
Radboud University Nijmegen
6 publications, 1%
University of Helsinki
6 publications, 1%
University of Zurich
6 publications, 1%
University of Sydney
6 publications, 1%
Georgetown University
6 publications, 1%
Dartmouth College
6 publications, 1%
Université Laval
6 publications, 1%
University of Texas at San Antonio
6 publications, 1%
Université de Montréal
6 publications, 1%
University of Bern
5 publications, 0.84%
Australian National University
5 publications, 0.84%
Pennsylvania State University
5 publications, 0.84%
Victoria University of Wellington
5 publications, 0.84%
Macquarie University
5 publications, 0.84%
University of Arizona
5 publications, 0.84%
University of Toronto
5 publications, 0.84%
University of Vermont
5 publications, 0.84%
University of Glasgow
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Cape Town
4 publications, 0.67%
Virginia Tech
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Michigan
4 publications, 0.67%
McGill University
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Victoria
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Reading
4 publications, 0.67%
Louisiana State University
4 publications, 0.67%
Brigham Young University
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Nevada, Reno
4 publications, 0.67%
University of Bayreuth
3 publications, 0.5%
Stockholm University
3 publications, 0.5%
Grenoble Alpes University
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Gothenburg
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Cambridge
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Antwerp
3 publications, 0.5%
Michigan State University
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Illinois at Chicago
3 publications, 0.5%
West Virginia University
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Washington
3 publications, 0.5%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 0.5%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Salzburg
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Florida
3 publications, 0.5%
Université du Québec à Montréal
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Georgia
3 publications, 0.5%
Oklahoma State University
3 publications, 0.5%
Queens College
3 publications, 0.5%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
2 publications, 0.33%
V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 0.33%
Tampere University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Turku
2 publications, 0.33%
University College London
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.33%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2 publications, 0.33%
Roskilde University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Southern California
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Birmingham
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Melbourne
2 publications, 0.33%
La Trobe University
2 publications, 0.33%
Northwestern University
2 publications, 0.33%
Northern Arizona University
2 publications, 0.33%
Newcastle University
2 publications, 0.33%
Ohio University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of the West of England
2 publications, 0.33%
Paris Cité University
2 publications, 0.33%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2 publications, 0.33%
Lancaster University
2 publications, 0.33%
Simon Fraser University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Duisburg-Essen
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Regensburg
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Groningen
2 publications, 0.33%
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
2 publications, 0.33%
Cardiff University
2 publications, 0.33%
Kansas State University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Sheffield
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Texas at El Paso
2 publications, 0.33%
Saint Mary's University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Barcelona
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Murcia
2 publications, 0.33%
Jaume I University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Utah
2 publications, 0.33%
Paris Sciences et Lettres
2 publications, 0.33%
University of New Hampshire
2 publications, 0.33%
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University of Bern
4 publications, 4.26%
University of Canterbury
3 publications, 3.19%
University of Ottawa
3 publications, 3.19%
Australian National University
2 publications, 2.13%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 2.13%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 2.13%
Pennsylvania State University
2 publications, 2.13%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2 publications, 2.13%
University of Salzburg
2 publications, 2.13%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 2.13%
Brigham Young University
2 publications, 2.13%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 1.06%
V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 1.06%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Liège
1 publication, 1.06%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 1.06%
Tampere University
1 publication, 1.06%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 1.06%
Stockholm University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Gothenburg
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 1.06%
Queen Mary University of London
1 publication, 1.06%
Tianjin University of Technology
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Antwerp
1 publication, 1.06%
Michigan State University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Glasgow
1 publication, 1.06%
Georgia Institute of technology
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Western Australia
1 publication, 1.06%
Stanford University
1 publication, 1.06%
North Carolina State University
1 publication, 1.06%
George Mason University
1 publication, 1.06%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 1.06%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 1.06%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1 publication, 1.06%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 1.06%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Münster
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Duisburg-Essen
1 publication, 1.06%
Leiden University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Greifswald
1 publication, 1.06%
Brown University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Groningen
1 publication, 1.06%
Cardiff Metropolitan University
1 publication, 1.06%
Cardiff University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Maryland, College Park
1 publication, 1.06%
Villanova University
1 publication, 1.06%
Saint Mary's University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Toronto
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Murcia
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Malaga
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Miami
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Florida
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Kentucky
1 publication, 1.06%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1 publication, 1.06%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Texas at San Antonio
1 publication, 1.06%
Paris Sciences et Lettres
1 publication, 1.06%
University of York
1 publication, 1.06%
Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris III
1 publication, 1.06%
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
1 publication, 1.06%
University of New Mexico
1 publication, 1.06%
Lesley University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Georgia
1 publication, 1.06%
Oklahoma State University
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Oregon
1 publication, 1.06%
University of Pittsburgh
1 publication, 1.06%
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
1 publication, 1.06%
Lehman College
1 publication, 1.06%
Queens College
1 publication, 1.06%
College of Staten Island
1 publication, 1.06%
California State University, San Bernardino
1 publication, 1.06%
California State University, Long Beach
1 publication, 1.06%
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USA, 216, 36.12%
USA
216 publications, 36.12%
Canada, 66, 11.04%
Canada
66 publications, 11.04%
United Kingdom, 56, 9.36%
United Kingdom
56 publications, 9.36%
Germany, 21, 3.51%
Germany
21 publications, 3.51%
Australia, 18, 3.01%
Australia
18 publications, 3.01%
New Zealand, 17, 2.84%
New Zealand
17 publications, 2.84%
Brazil, 13, 2.17%
Brazil
13 publications, 2.17%
Belgium, 11, 1.84%
Belgium
11 publications, 1.84%
Mexico, 11, 1.84%
Mexico
11 publications, 1.84%
Netherlands, 11, 1.84%
Netherlands
11 publications, 1.84%
Finland, 9, 1.51%
Finland
9 publications, 1.51%
Switzerland, 9, 1.51%
Switzerland
9 publications, 1.51%
Sweden, 7, 1.17%
Sweden
7 publications, 1.17%
France, 6, 1%
France
6 publications, 1%
China, 5, 0.84%
China
5 publications, 0.84%
South Africa, 5, 0.84%
South Africa
5 publications, 0.84%
Denmark, 4, 0.67%
Denmark
4 publications, 0.67%
Spain, 4, 0.67%
Spain
4 publications, 0.67%
Italy, 3, 0.5%
Italy
3 publications, 0.5%
Russia, 2, 0.33%
Russia
2 publications, 0.33%
Portugal, 2, 0.33%
Portugal
2 publications, 0.33%
Austria, 2, 0.33%
Austria
2 publications, 0.33%
Venezuela, 2, 0.33%
Venezuela
2 publications, 0.33%
Israel, 2, 0.33%
Israel
2 publications, 0.33%
Norway, 2, 0.33%
Norway
2 publications, 0.33%
Albania, 1, 0.17%
Albania
1 publication, 0.17%
Afghanistan, 1, 0.17%
Afghanistan
1 publication, 0.17%
India, 1, 0.17%
India
1 publication, 0.17%
Latvia, 1, 0.17%
Latvia
1 publication, 0.17%
Puerto Rico, 1, 0.17%
Puerto Rico
1 publication, 0.17%
Saudi Arabia, 1, 0.17%
Saudi Arabia
1 publication, 0.17%
Singapore, 1, 0.17%
Singapore
1 publication, 0.17%
Turkey, 1, 0.17%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.17%
Japan, 1, 0.17%
Japan
1 publication, 0.17%
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USA, 23, 24.47%
USA
23 publications, 24.47%
United Kingdom, 7, 7.45%
United Kingdom
7 publications, 7.45%
Canada, 6, 6.38%
Canada
6 publications, 6.38%
Germany, 3, 3.19%
Germany
3 publications, 3.19%
Australia, 3, 3.19%
Australia
3 publications, 3.19%
Netherlands, 3, 3.19%
Netherlands
3 publications, 3.19%
Switzerland, 3, 3.19%
Switzerland
3 publications, 3.19%
China, 2, 2.13%
China
2 publications, 2.13%
Spain, 2, 2.13%
Spain
2 publications, 2.13%
New Zealand, 2, 2.13%
New Zealand
2 publications, 2.13%
Russia, 1, 1.06%
Russia
1 publication, 1.06%
Albania, 1, 1.06%
Albania
1 publication, 1.06%
Belgium, 1, 1.06%
Belgium
1 publication, 1.06%
Mexico, 1, 1.06%
Mexico
1 publication, 1.06%
Finland, 1, 1.06%
Finland
1 publication, 1.06%
Sweden, 1, 1.06%
Sweden
1 publication, 1.06%
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