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FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS

WILEY · US

ISSN0015-718XeISSN1944-9720

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.783

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.314

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education & Educational Research; Linguistics; Linguistics and Language.

General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 66 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications—

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

WILEY

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0015-718X / 1944-9720

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

992

2019

2.1k

2020

1.3k

2021

422

2022

323

2023

171

2024

115

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Linguistics and LanguageQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational ResearchLinguistics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningSecond Language Learning and TeachingMultilingual Education and PolicyHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesSecond Language Acquisition and LearningEducational Robotics and EngineeringDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesLinguistics, Language Diversity, and IdentityReading and Literacy Development

Frequently asked questions about FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS

Is FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS?

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date.

Is FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS?