Open Access Linguistics Journals
A list of Open Access Linguistics journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Linguistics is study of human language
All articles published in Open Access journals have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
Our team made this list of Linguistics Open Access journals with the aim to help you to decide where to publish your Linguistics manuscript.
Our list includes all the high-impact factor Linguistics journals that may be relevant to your field of study. In any case, we've also included other journals that may also offer more affordable publishing fees.Rather than displaying just the most relevant Linguistics journals, we have made an in-depth list of all the open accesss Linguistics journals. Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Linguistics venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Linguistics journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
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Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
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Englishes in practice | 2049-7156 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 17 | 396 | 100 | ||
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics | 1645-4537 | ☑ | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 230 | 1270 | 97.4 | |
Semantics and Pragmatics | 1937-8912 | ☑ | Semantics and Pragmatics | 199 | 3714 | 97 | Website |
Journal of the European Second Language Association | 2399-9101 | ☑ | White Rose University Press | 45 | 346 | 95.6 | Website |
Languages | 2226-471X | ☑ | MDPI AG | 455 | 231 | 94.3 | Website |
Acta Linguistica Hungarica | 1216-8076 | Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 410 | 2437 | 93.2 | Website | |
Glossa | 2397-1835 | ☑ | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 580 | 1240 | 92.8 | Website |
Open Linguistics | 2300-9969 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 285 | 959 | 92.6 | Website |
Journal of Greek Linguistics | 1566-5844 | ☑ | Brill | 290 | 1131 | 92.4 | Website |
Studies in African linguistics | 0039-3533 | ☑ | University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries | 804 | 2380 | 92 | Website |
Ampersand | 2215-0390 | ☑ | Elsevier | 86 | 394 | 91.9 | Website |
Journal of Universal Language | 1598-6381 | Sejong University Language Research Institute | 236 | 727 | 91.9 | ||
Russian Journal of Linguistics | 2312-9182 | ☑ | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia | 1238 | 367 | 91.9 | Website |
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics | 2164-2834 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 461 | 721 | 91.8 | ||
ICAME Journal | 0801-5775 | ☑ | 151 | 762 | 91.4 | ||
Catalan journal of linguistics | 1695-6885 | ☑ | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | 215 | 1949 | 89.3 | Website |
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America | 2473-8689 | Semantics and Pragmatics | 471 | 378 | 88.7 | ||
Research in Language | 1731-7533 | Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) | 327 | 823 | 88.4 | ||
Linguistic Research | 1229-1374 | Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University | 377 | 413 | 88.3 | ||
Journal of Fuzzy Set Valued Analysis | 2193-4169 | ISPACS GmbH | 162 | 512 | 88.3 | ||
Lingua Posnaniensis | 0079-4740 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 258 | 297 | 88 | |
Contemporary linguistics | 0586-0296 | ☑ | Hrvatsko filolosko drustvo (Croatian Philological Society) | 441 | 119 | 88 | Website |
Discourse and Interaction | 1802-9930 | Masaryk University Press | 115 | 99 | 87 | ||
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics | 2313-2299 | ☑ | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia | 774 | 100 | 86.6 | Website |
Journal of Language Modelling | 2299-8470 | ☑ | Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences | 104 | 570 | 85.6 | Website |
International Journal of English Linguistics | 1923-869X | Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1452 | 2536 | 85.5 | ||
Journal of multilingual theories and practices | 2632-4490 | Equinox Publishing | 41 | 40 | 85.4 | ||
Proceedings of the annual meetings on phonology | 2377-3324 | Semantics and Pragmatics | 272 | 431 | 84.6 | ||
Romanian Journal of English Studies | 1584-3734 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 205 | 72 | 84.4 | |
Advances in Fuzzy Systems | 1687-7101 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 332 | 2350 | 84.3 | Website |
International journal of English language teaching | 2329-7913 | Sciedu Press | 19 | 82 | 84.2 | ||
Journal of Language Contact | 1955-2629 | ☑ | Brill | 372 | 1670 | 83.9 | Website |
Laboratory Phonology | 1868-6346 | ☑ | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 288 | 2728 | 82.6 | |
Govor | 0352-7565 | Hrvatsko filolosko drustvo (Croatian Philological Society) | 389 | 92 | 82.5 | ||
Dialogue and discourse | 2152-9620 | ☑ | University of Illinois Libraries | 107 | 1083 | 82.2 | Website |
TESL Canada Journal | 0826-435X | TESL Canada Federation | 875 | 7877 | 82.1 | ||
Theory and Practice in Language Studies | 1799-2591 | Academy Publication | 3219 | 6962 | 82 | ||
IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) | 2527-6492 | IAIN Samarinda | 108 | 67 | 81.5 | ||
Journal of Language Teaching and Research | 1798-4769 | Academy Publication | 2085 | 6835 | 81.2 | ||
Nordlyd | 0332-7531 | ☑ | 222 | 1703 | 81.1 | Website | |
Cognitive Studies | 2080-7147 | ☑ | 214 | 258 | 80.8 | Website | |
Discourse and Cognition | 1226-5691 | The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea | 456 | 1611 | 80.7 | ||
Jezikoslovlje | 1331-7202 | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek | 487 | 673 | 80.7 | ||
International Journal of Language and Linguistics | 2330-0205 | Science Publishing Group | 562 | 482 | 80.1 | ||
Arabiyat | 2356-153X | ☑ | LP2M Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta | 150 | 45 | 80 | Website |
Himalayan linguistics | 1544-7502 | ☑ | eScholarship Publishing | 166 | 296 | 79.5 | Website |
Studies in English language and education | 2461-0275 | LPPM Unsyiah | 280 | 274 | 79.3 | ||
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies | 1305-578X | Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies | 1059 | 1763 | 79.3 | ||
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature | 2200-3452 | Australian International Academic Centre | 1661 | 2285 | 79.3 | ||
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 2301-9468 | ☑ | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | 551 | 1047 | 79.3 | Website |
English Language Teaching | 1916-4742 | Canadian Center of Science and Education | 3973 | 15616 | 79.3 | ||
Linguistics and Literature Studies | 2331-6438 | Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd. | 307 | 173 | 79.2 | ||
Isogloss | 2385-4138 | ☑ | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | 122 | 84 | 78.7 | Website |
Oslo Studies in Language | 1890-9639 | ☑ | University of Oslo Library | 272 | 390 | 78.7 | Website |
Linguistica Pragensia | 0862-8432 | ☑ | Portico | 158 | 83 | 78.5 | Website |
English Linguistics Research | 1927-6028 | Sciedu Press | 275 | 624 | 78.2 | ||
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia | 0081-6272 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 491 | 1010 | 78 | Website |
Fuzzy Information and Engineering | 1616-8666 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 418 | 2474 | 78 | Website |
Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística | 2183-9077 | Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica | 162 | 46 | 77.8 | ||
LSA annual meeting extended abstracts | 2377-3367 | Semantics and Pragmatics | 243 | 206 | 77.8 | ||
Indo-European linguistics | 2212-5884 | ☑ | Brill | 63 | 65 | 77.8 | Website |
Neurobiology of language | 2641-4368 | ☑ | MIT Press | 76 | 235 | 77.6 | Website |
International journal of linguistics, literature and translation | 2617-0299 | Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development | 650 | 43 | 77.2 | ||
International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning | 2243-7754 | Consortia Academia Publishing | 250 | 780 | 77.2 | ||
Language Testing in Asia | 2229-0443 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 230 | 1034 | 77 | Website |
Advances in Language and Literary Studies | 2203-4714 | Australian International Academic Centre | 1241 | 1281 | 77 | ||
Linguistic evidence in security, law and intelligence | 2327-5596 | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | 13 | 39 | 76.9 | ||
Semantics and Linguistic Theory | 2163-5943 | 1369 | 11108 | 76.9 | |||
Sustainable Multilingualism | 2335-2019 | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 266 | 162 | 76.7 | |
Stellenbosch papers in linguistics | 1027-3417 | ☑ | Stellenbosch University - SPIL | 197 | 486 | 76.6 | Website |
Acta Linguistica Asiatica | 2232-3317 | ☑ | Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana | 231 | 110 | 76.6 | Website |
TEFLIN Journal | 0215-773X | ☑ | Teflin Journal | 367 | 1157 | 76.3 | Website |
Argument & Computation | 1946-2174 | IOS Press | 164 | 2521 | 76.2 | ||
Studies in linguistics and literature | 2573-6426 | Scholink Co, Ltd. | 137 | 43 | 75.9 | ||
Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes | 2334-9182 | University of Nis | 478 | 233 | 75.9 | ||
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis | 1897-1059 | Uniwersytet Jagiellonski – Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego | 384 | 276 | 75.3 | ||
Eurasian journal of applied linguistics | 2149-1135 | ☑ | Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 154 | 265 | 75.3 | Website |
Narrative works | 1925-0622 | Consortium Erudit | 52 | 44 | 75 | ||
Papers in historical phonology | 2399-6714 | ☑ | Edinburgh University Library | 51 | 62 | 74.5 | Website |
Journal of applied linguistics and literature | 2503-524X | ☑ | UNIB Press | 139 | 52 | 74.1 | Website |
Contrastive pragmatics | 2666-0385 | Brill | 50 | 165 | 74 | ||
Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology | 1226-8690 | The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea | 350 | 337 | 74 | ||
Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 1735-1634 | Armenian Green Publishing Co. | 141 | 187 | 73.8 | ||
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | 2084-1965 | ☑ | Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan | 416 | 3776 | 73.6 | Website |
Apples: journal of applied language studies | 1457-9863 | ☑ | Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies | 207 | 656 | 73.4 | Website |
Research in corpus linguistics | 2243-4712 | ☑ | Research in Corpus Linguistics | 108 | 91 | 73.1 | Website |
Taikomoji kalbotyra | 2029-8935 | ☑ | Vilnius University | 137 | 47 | 73 | Website |
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 1481-868X | ☑ | Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 356 | 1965 | 72.8 | Website |
Indonesian journal of EFL and linguistics | 2503-4197 | Yayasan Visi Intan Permata (Centrall) | 120 | 42 | 72.5 | ||
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education | 2363-5169 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 131 | 390 | 72.5 | Website |
Journal of Languages and Culture | 2141-6540 | Academic Journals | 131 | 210 | 72.5 | ||
Advanced Education | 2409-3351 | ☑ | Kyiv Politechnic Institute | 346 | 266 | 72.3 | Website |
Lingua Cultura | 1978-8118 | ☑ | Universitas Bina Nusantara | 416 | 232 | 72.1 | Website |
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics | 0032-6585 | ☑ | 380 | 3066 | 72.1 | ||
JEELLS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies) | 2407-2575 | ☑ | STAIN Kediri | 181 | 98 | 71.8 | Website |
ZAS papers in linguistics | 1435-9588 | University Library J. C. Senckenberg | 542 | 2396 | 71.8 | ||
Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning | 2252-8385 | ☑ | UIN Walisongo Semarang | 109 | 47 | 71.6 | Website |
Journal of Korean Language Education | 1225-6137 | The International Association For Korean Language Education | 1166 | 208 | 71.4 | ||
AZTI arrantza | 1578-6617 | 52 | 88 | 71.2 | |||
ExELL | 2303-4858 | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 52 | 60 | 71.2 | Website |