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ESP Today comes out biannually (in June and in December) and welcomes submissions of previously unpublished research papers on a variety of topics taking a broadly defined tertiary-level ESP perspective on: needs analysis, teaching material preparation, curriculum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.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year Value
2025 2.2

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year Value
2024 0.782

Quartile

Year Value
2024 Q1

h-index

Year Value
2024 14

Journal Rank

Year Value
2024 6986

Journal Citation Indicator

Year Value
2024 108

Impact Factor Trend


Abstracting & Indexing

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


Subjects & Keywords

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


Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.


Policy Links

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APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Quick Facts

Current Factor
2.2
First Published: 2025

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

SJR
0.782
First Published: 2024

Quartile

Current Quartile
Q1
First Published: 2024

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