Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

Walter de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter
ISSN: 01676164, 16133811

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SCImago
Q3
WOS
Q3
Impact factor
0.6
SJR
0.130
CiteScore
0.5
Categories
Linguistics and Language
Areas
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1979-1989, 1991-2025
journal names
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
J AFR LANG LINGUIST
Publications
604
Citations
3 008
h-index
30
Publications
70
Citations
1 174
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
Leiden University
Leiden University (6 publications)
University of Ghana
University of Ghana (4 publications)
Ghent University
Ghent University (3 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (21 publications)
Germany (8 publications)
Netherlands (8 publications)
USA (13 publications)
Germany (5 publications)
Ghana (5 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
73 citations, 2.43%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
56 citations, 1.86%
Phonology
50 citations, 1.66%
Lingua
49 citations, 1.63%
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
36 citations, 1.2%
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
28 citations, 0.93%
Linguistic Inquiry
23 citations, 0.76%
Linguistics
22 citations, 0.73%
Studies in Language
21 citations, 0.7%
Linguistic Typology
20 citations, 0.66%
Linguistics and Language Compass
19 citations, 0.63%
Studies in Language Companion Series
19 citations, 0.63%
Journal of Linguistics
18 citations, 0.6%
Morphology
18 citations, 0.6%
Études et Documents Berbères
18 citations, 0.6%
Journal of Phonetics
17 citations, 0.57%
Typological Studies in Language
16 citations, 0.53%
South African Journal of African Languages
16 citations, 0.53%
Diachronica
16 citations, 0.53%
Emergent Literacy
16 citations, 0.53%
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
15 citations, 0.5%
Languages
15 citations, 0.5%
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
14 citations, 0.47%
Transactions of the Philological Society
14 citations, 0.47%
Syntax
13 citations, 0.43%
Linguistic Review
12 citations, 0.4%
Linguistic Variation
12 citations, 0.4%
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles
12 citations, 0.4%
Journal of Historical Linguistics
11 citations, 0.37%
Language Sciences
10 citations, 0.33%
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
9 citations, 0.3%
Mandenkan
8 citations, 0.27%
Glossa a journal of general linguistics
7 citations, 0.23%
Linguistique et langues africaines
7 citations, 0.23%
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
7 citations, 0.23%
Folia Linguistica
6 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Language Contact
5 citations, 0.17%
Linguistics Vanguard
5 citations, 0.17%
Cogent Arts and Humanities
5 citations, 0.17%
Phonetica
5 citations, 0.17%
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
5 citations, 0.17%
Culture and Language Use
5 citations, 0.17%
Natural Language Semantics
4 citations, 0.13%
Africa
4 citations, 0.13%
Word Structure
4 citations, 0.13%
Language and Speech
4 citations, 0.13%
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
4 citations, 0.13%
Laboratory Phonology
4 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Communication
4 citations, 0.13%
Cognitive Linguistics
3 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
3 citations, 0.1%
Studia Linguistica
3 citations, 0.1%
Azania
3 citations, 0.1%
Linguistics and Philosophy
3 citations, 0.1%
English World-Wide
3 citations, 0.1%
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology
3 citations, 0.1%
Yearbook of Morphology
3 citations, 0.1%
Asian Languages and Linguistics
3 citations, 0.1%
Encyclopédie berbère
3 citations, 0.1%
Linx
3 citations, 0.1%
Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
3 citations, 0.1%
Language Faculty and Beyond
2 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2 citations, 0.07%
Studies in Bilingualism
2 citations, 0.07%
Frontiers in Psychology
2 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Bilingualism
2 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Word
2 citations, 0.07%
Brain and Language
2 citations, 0.07%
Varieties of English Around the World
2 citations, 0.07%
Topics in Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Australian Journal of Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
2 citations, 0.07%
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
2 citations, 0.07%
Journal of African History
2 citations, 0.07%
Canadian Journal of African Studies
2 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Pragmatics
2 citations, 0.07%
Cognition
2 citations, 0.07%
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Semantics
2 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of American Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Language Matters
2 citations, 0.07%
Hunter Gatherer Research
2 citations, 0.07%
Functions of Language
2 citations, 0.07%
PLoS ONE
2 citations, 0.07%
Language in Society
2 citations, 0.07%
Open Research Europe
2 citations, 0.07%
Language Typology and Universals
2 citations, 0.07%
Cahiers de praxématique
2 citations, 0.07%
Corela
2 citations, 0.07%
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
2 citations, 0.07%
Human Cognitive Processing
2 citations, 0.07%
Contact Language Library
2 citations, 0.07%
Speech and Interaction of Preadolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
2 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of English and Literature
2 citations, 0.07%
Phonology Yearbook
2 citations, 0.07%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1 citation, 0.03%
Mind and Language
1 citation, 0.03%
Annual Review of Linguistics
1 citation, 0.03%
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
1 citation, 0.03%
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Citing publishers

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Oxford University Press
756 citations, 25.13%
Cambridge University Press
559 citations, 18.58%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
186 citations, 6.18%
Walter de Gruyter
158 citations, 5.25%
Elsevier
109 citations, 3.62%
Wiley
89 citations, 2.96%
Springer Nature
80 citations, 2.66%
Taylor & Francis
67 citations, 2.23%
MIT Press
23 citations, 0.76%
CAIRN
20 citations, 0.66%
OpenEdition
19 citations, 0.63%
National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
19 citations, 0.63%
MDPI
16 citations, 0.53%
Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Nolre
8 citations, 0.27%
SAGE
7 citations, 0.23%
Frontiers Media S.A.
7 citations, 0.23%
Open Library of Humanities
7 citations, 0.23%
Brill
5 citations, 0.17%
S. Karger AG
5 citations, 0.17%
Edinburgh University Press
4 citations, 0.13%
Ubiquity Press
4 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Language Contact Publishers
3 citations, 0.1%
Liverpool University Press
2 citations, 0.07%
University of Chicago Press
2 citations, 0.07%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2 citations, 0.07%
Hindawi Limited
2 citations, 0.07%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2 citations, 0.07%
F1000 Research
2 citations, 0.07%
Transstellar Journal Publications and Research Consultancy Private Limited
2 citations, 0.07%
Emerald
1 citation, 0.03%
1 citation, 0.03%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1 citation, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1 citation, 0.03%
Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University
1 citation, 0.03%
Tomsk State Pedagogical University
1 citation, 0.03%
Annual Reviews
1 citation, 0.03%
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
1 citation, 0.03%
Akademiai Kiado
1 citation, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
1 citation, 0.03%
IGI Global
1 citation, 0.03%
AOSIS
1 citation, 0.03%
Sejong University Language Research Institute
1 citation, 0.03%
The English Linguistic Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.03%
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Leiden University
6 publications, 0.99%
University of Ghana
4 publications, 0.66%
Ghent University
3 publications, 0.5%
University of the Free State
3 publications, 0.5%
Hamburg University
3 publications, 0.5%
School of Oriental and African Studies
3 publications, 0.5%
University of Kansas
3 publications, 0.5%
Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 0.33%
Radboud University Nijmegen
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Gothenburg
2 publications, 0.33%
Aalborg University
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 0.33%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Göttingen
2 publications, 0.33%
Indiana University Bloomington
2 publications, 0.33%
University of Essex
2 publications, 0.33%
University at Albany, State University of New York
2 publications, 0.33%
California State University, Long Beach
2 publications, 0.33%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 0.17%
Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.17%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Bayreuth
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Bern
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Naples - L'Orientale
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Neuchâtel
1 publication, 0.17%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Verona
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Edinburgh
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0.17%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Bari Aldo Moro
1 publication, 0.17%
Tuscia University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 0.17%
Stanford University
1 publication, 0.17%
Georgetown University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of the Western Cape
1 publication, 0.17%
Boston University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Nigeria
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Calabar
1 publication, 0.17%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 0.17%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 0.17%
Hangzhou City University
1 publication, 0.17%
Zhejiang Gongshang University
1 publication, 0.17%
Northern Arizona University
1 publication, 0.17%
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Cape Coast
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Cologne
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Health and Allied Sciences
1 publication, 0.17%
Goethe University Frankfurt
1 publication, 0.17%
Addis Ababa University
1 publication, 0.17%
Leipzig University
1 publication, 0.17%
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1 publication, 0.17%
Virginia Commonwealth University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Pennsylvania
1 publication, 0.17%
Florida Atlantic University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Khartoum
1 publication, 0.17%
Moi University
1 publication, 0.17%
Bahir Dar University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of York
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Malawi
1 publication, 0.17%
Abdou Moumouni University
1 publication, 0.17%
Savannah State University
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Eldoret
1 publication, 0.17%
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
1 publication, 0.17%
Université Alassane Ouattara
1 publication, 0.17%
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
1 publication, 0.17%
University of Montana
1 publication, 0.17%
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University of Ghana
4 publications, 5.71%
University of the Free State
3 publications, 4.29%
Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 2.86%
Ghent University
2 publications, 2.86%
Radboud University Nijmegen
2 publications, 2.86%
University of Gothenburg
2 publications, 2.86%
Hamburg University
2 publications, 2.86%
University of Göttingen
2 publications, 2.86%
University of Essex
2 publications, 2.86%
University of Kansas
2 publications, 2.86%
University at Albany, State University of New York
2 publications, 2.86%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Bayreuth
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Bern
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Neuchâtel
1 publication, 1.43%
Aalborg University
1 publication, 1.43%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Verona
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Edinburgh
1 publication, 1.43%
Yale University
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Bari Aldo Moro
1 publication, 1.43%
Tuscia University
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 1.43%
Stanford University
1 publication, 1.43%
Georgetown University
1 publication, 1.43%
University of the Western Cape
1 publication, 1.43%
Boston University
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Nigeria
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Calabar
1 publication, 1.43%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 1.43%
Hangzhou City University
1 publication, 1.43%
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Cape Coast
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Cologne
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Health and Allied Sciences
1 publication, 1.43%
Leiden University
1 publication, 1.43%
Leipzig University
1 publication, 1.43%
Virginia Commonwealth University
1 publication, 1.43%
Florida Atlantic University
1 publication, 1.43%
Indiana University Bloomington
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Khartoum
1 publication, 1.43%
Bahir Dar University
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Malawi
1 publication, 1.43%
School of Oriental and African Studies
1 publication, 1.43%
Abdou Moumouni University
1 publication, 1.43%
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
1 publication, 1.43%
Université Alassane Ouattara
1 publication, 1.43%
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
1 publication, 1.43%
University of Montana
1 publication, 1.43%
California State University, Long Beach
1 publication, 1.43%
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Publishing countries

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USA, 21, 3.48%
USA
21 publications, 3.48%
Germany, 8, 1.32%
Germany
8 publications, 1.32%
Netherlands, 8, 1.32%
Netherlands
8 publications, 1.32%
United Kingdom, 7, 1.16%
United Kingdom
7 publications, 1.16%
France, 6, 0.99%
France
6 publications, 0.99%
Ghana, 5, 0.83%
Ghana
5 publications, 0.83%
South Africa, 5, 0.83%
South Africa
5 publications, 0.83%
Russia, 4, 0.66%
Russia
4 publications, 0.66%
Belgium, 3, 0.5%
Belgium
3 publications, 0.5%
China, 2, 0.33%
China
2 publications, 0.33%
Italy, 2, 0.33%
Italy
2 publications, 0.33%
Norway, 2, 0.33%
Norway
2 publications, 0.33%
Switzerland, 2, 0.33%
Switzerland
2 publications, 0.33%
Sweden, 2, 0.33%
Sweden
2 publications, 0.33%
Ethiopia, 2, 0.33%
Ethiopia
2 publications, 0.33%
Denmark, 1, 0.17%
Denmark
1 publication, 0.17%
Cameroon, 1, 0.17%
Cameroon
1 publication, 0.17%
Kenya, 1, 0.17%
Kenya
1 publication, 0.17%
Malawi, 1, 0.17%
Malawi
1 publication, 0.17%
Niger, 1, 0.17%
Niger
1 publication, 0.17%
Nigeria, 1, 0.17%
Nigeria
1 publication, 0.17%
Tanzania, 1, 0.17%
Tanzania
1 publication, 0.17%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA, 13, 18.57%
USA
13 publications, 18.57%
Germany, 5, 7.14%
Germany
5 publications, 7.14%
Ghana, 5, 7.14%
Ghana
5 publications, 7.14%
Russia, 3, 4.29%
Russia
3 publications, 4.29%
United Kingdom, 3, 4.29%
United Kingdom
3 publications, 4.29%
Netherlands, 3, 4.29%
Netherlands
3 publications, 4.29%
South Africa, 3, 4.29%
South Africa
3 publications, 4.29%
France, 2, 2.86%
France
2 publications, 2.86%
Belgium, 2, 2.86%
Belgium
2 publications, 2.86%
Sweden, 2, 2.86%
Sweden
2 publications, 2.86%
China, 1, 1.43%
China
1 publication, 1.43%
Italy, 1, 1.43%
Italy
1 publication, 1.43%
Malawi, 1, 1.43%
Malawi
1 publication, 1.43%
Niger, 1, 1.43%
Niger
1 publication, 1.43%
Nigeria, 1, 1.43%
Nigeria
1 publication, 1.43%
Norway, 1, 1.43%
Norway
1 publication, 1.43%
Tanzania, 1, 1.43%
Tanzania
1 publication, 1.43%
Switzerland, 1, 1.43%
Switzerland
1 publication, 1.43%
Ethiopia, 1, 1.43%
Ethiopia
1 publication, 1.43%
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