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ESP Today

University of Belgrade · Serbia · Est. 2014

ISSN2334-9050eISSN2334-9050
SJR Q1WOS ESCIScopus / SJRDOAJOpen Access
90
/ 100
High Trust
PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals
Score Breakdown
Scopus Q178
✓ Corroboration (2 more)+12
Total90
⚡ Speed vs Prestige
How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?
15
weeks to publish · journal-reported
Average · vs ~15 wk median
Q1
SJR Rank
Top 25% in field
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

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

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1 · Scopus CiteScore 1.8. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei
0.967
H-Indexi
15
CiteScorei
1.8
SNIPi
1.78
Total Worksi
160
Total Citationsi
1,027
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.69
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

ESP Today – Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level is an online open access double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers covering all areas of English for Specific Purposes in the context of tertiary education. The Journal is aimed at ESP researchers, scholars and practitioners worldwide. ESP Today comes out biannually (in January and June) and welcomes submissions of previously unpublished research papers on a variety of topics taking a broadly defined tertiary-level ESP perspective on: needs analysis teaching material preparation curriculum development evaluation and testing approaches to ESP teaching and learning ESP and language skills ESP vocabulary genre and discourse analysis critical perspectives on ESP multimodality in ESP cognitive approaches to ESP ethnographic approaches to ESP corpus-based approaches to ESP contact linguistics and ESP interdisciplinary approaches to ESP contrastive and cross-cultural approaches to ESP We publish both papers which have pedagogical implications for ESP teaching and learning in the context of academic studies, and those which specifically focus on the language analysis of various scientific registers of English taught at tertiary level institutions. The scope of the paper includes (but is not limited) to the following fields: Business English English in Economics English for Medical Purposes Legal English English for Arts and Social Sciences English for Science and Technology English for Sport Financial/Banking English Research papers on a wide range of topics treated from the perspective of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are also welcome, such as: research language skills academic language skills cross-cultural differences in EAP metadiscourse in academic speech and writing contrastive rhetoric in EAP English for research publication purposes English as a lingua franca of research publication, etc. ESP Today also welcomes reviews of books, research monographs or edited volumes which take an ESP perspective as broadly conceived above.

General Information

Country / RegionSerbia
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2014
Frequencybiannually
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications160
Publisher OrgUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Economics
Region🌍 Global South
OA Since2015
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Submission Info

APC Cost💎 Diamond OA — Free
Peer ReviewDouble-blind
Review Time~15 weeks
Acceptance Rate
OA LicenseCC BY
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/12 · 75%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
University of Belgrade
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
2334-9050 / 2334-9050
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus, DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Double-blind
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
APC fees clearly disclosed?
No APC (Free)
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
No
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
12
109
2019
13
97
2020
23
153
2021
6
107
2022
26
128
2023
17
21
2024
17
10
2025
9
0
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

Linguistics

Scopus Categories

Linguistics and Language

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Second Language Learning and TeachingEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionSecond Language Acquisition and Learninglinguistics and terminology studiesHigher Education Learning PracticesNatural Language Processing TechniquesTranslation Studies and PracticesMultilingual Education and Policy

Frequently asked questions about ESP Today

Is ESP Today a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for ESP Today: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 90/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of ESP Today?

ESP Today 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. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8.

Is ESP Today indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

ESP Today is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of ESP Today?

ESP Today – Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level is an online open access double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers covering all areas of English for Specific Purposes in the context of tertiary education. The Journal is aimed at ESP researchers, scholars and practitioners worldwide. ESP Today comes out biannually (in January and June) and welcomes submissions of previously unpublished research papers on a variety of topics taking a broadly defined tertiary-level ESP perspective on: needs analysis teaching material preparation

How much does it cost to publish in ESP Today?

ESP Today is a Diamond open-access journal — there is no article processing charge (APC) to publish.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref