Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Linguistics (IJL) is an international, double-anonymized peer-reviewed, open-access journal published bimonthly by Macrothink Institute. The journal publishes original research in theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, including language structure, meaning, use, and change.

Aims

International Journal of Linguistics aims to advance international dialogue in linguistic research and encourage collaboration across theoretical, descriptive, empirical, and applied approaches. Through the dissemination of rigorous scholarship, the journal seeks to deepen understanding of human language and its role in cognition, communication, culture, and society. The journal provides an international forum for linguists, language researchers, and scholars from related disciplines to investigate how languages are organized, acquired, used, interpreted, and transformed across different communities and contexts.

Focus and Scope

The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, descriptive, and interdisciplinary research addressing diverse aspects of human language, including but not limited to:
• Phonetics and phonology
• Morphology and syntax
• Semantics and pragmatics
• Discourse and sociolinguistics
• Language variation and change
• Applied linguistics and language acquisition
• Formal and theoretical linguistic frameworks
• Descriptive and corpus linguistics
• Psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches
• Multilingualism and contact linguistics

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

We use a double-blind system for peer review; both reviewers’ and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be reviewed by at least two experts: one editorial staff member and at least one external reviewer. The review process may take 4 to 10 weeks.

 

Publication Frequency

Bimonthly, published in February, April, June, August, October and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Index/List/Archive

ANVUR
CNKI Scholar
ERA
Gale's Academic Databases
Google Scholar
J-Gate
Linguistics Abstracts Online (Wiley)
NewJour
PKP Open Archives Harvester
ProQuest
Sherpa/Romeo


 

Journal Metrics

1. Google-based Impact Factor (2018): 2.66

The impact factor (IF) or Journal impact factor (JIF) normally referred to is the proprietary journal impact factor from Thomson Reuters calculated based on the Web of Science (WOS) and published in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Currently, this journal hasn’t been indexed in Thomson Reuters JCR. Therefore, its official JCR®JIF is not yet available.

However, Google Scholar now provides an alternative Google-based impact factor. Google Scholar is the only openly available database suitable for journal metric calculation. It has a wide coverage and is a meaningful source. For this reason, Macrothink Institute is calculating its own Impact Factor by applying Thomson Reuters'(TR) algorithm based on Google Scholar's citation counts.

The 2018 Google-based impact factor of this journal would be calculated as follows:

IF2018=(Citations2017+Citations2016)/(Publications2017+Publications2016)=(203+186)/(76+70)=2.66

2. h-index (January 2018): 13

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

3. i10-index (January 2018): 24

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

4. h5-index (January 2018): 14

h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2012-2016 have at least h citations each.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics

5. h5-median (January 2018): 18

h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics

 

GenAI Usage Policy

Authors must disclose any involvement of GenAI tools in writing, analysis, or data processing within their manuscripts. This disclosure should include specific details about the GenAI tools, algorithms, or models utilized.

All content generated with AI tools must undergo thorough author review and editing to ensure quality, accuracy.

Authors should clearly specify the tasks performed by GenAI tools and their impact on the research and writing process. This includes detailing where and how GenAI was utilized in the creation of the manuscript.

 

Special Issue Proposals

To foster academic collaboration and advance scholarly research, we welcome special issue proposals from scholars, researchers, and academic or research institutions. Those interested in organizing a special issue are invited to submit their inquiries and proposals to the journal’s editorial office via email: ijl@macrothink.org