Bilingualism

Aims & Scope

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is an international peer-reviewed journal focusing on bilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific perspective.

The aims of the journal are to promote research on the bilingual and multilingual person and to encourage debate in the field.

Areas covered include: bilingual language competence, bilingual language processing, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, bimodal bilingualism, neurolinguistics of bilingualism in normal and brain-damaged individuals, computational modelling of bilingual language competence and performance, and the study of cognitive functions in bilinguals.

BLC carries articles and research notes on all aspects of the bilingual person, including articles presenting research methods and research tools pertinent to the field of bilingualism.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.6
2024	2.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.119

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4009

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	783

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mental control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system

  Citation: 1749

  Authors: DAVID W.

• The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system: From identification to decision

  Citation: 1087

  Authors: Ton, Walter J.B.

• Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

  Citation: 682

  Authors: ELLEN

• A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition

  Citation: 639

  Authors: KEES, WANDER, MARJOLIJN

• Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children

  Citation: 552

  Authors: ELLEN, GIGI, KATHLEEN F., SUJIN

• Studying bilinguals: Methodological and conceptual issues

  Citation: 539

  Authors: FRANÇOIS

• The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: the declarative/procedural model

  Citation: 467

  Authors: Michael T.

• Competing activation in bilingual language processing: Within- and between-language competition

  Citation: 447

  Authors: VIORICA, MICHAEL

• Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech

  Citation: 441

  Authors: JUDITH F., SUSAN C., ZOFIA

• The development of two types of inhibitory control in monolingual and bilingual children

  Citation: 423

  Authors: MICHELLE M., ELLEN

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