Language and History

Aims & Scope

Language & History (formerly the Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas) aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic thought, theoretical and applied, and including non-European traditions.

Its fields of interest include the history both of the major subject areas of linguistics and also more specialised topics, such as writing systems, literacy, rhetoric, and the application of linguistic ideas within professional and technical fields.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26247

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	11

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.131

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
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• 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.

• The History of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, from a British and European Perspective

  Citation: 67

  Authors: A. P. R., Richard

• Making It Groove! Entrainment, Participation and Discrepancy in the 'Conversation' of a Jazz Trio

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Mark

• The History of Chinese Grammars in Chinese and Western Scholarly Traditions

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Hilary, Alain

• Language in education in Algeria: a historical vignette of a ‘most severe’ sociolinguistic problem

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Cheryl S.

• The Development of Chinese Grammars and the Classification of the Parts of Speech

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Mariarosaria

• ‘By Those Provincials Mispronounced’: The strut Vowel in Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Joan C

• Introduction: Building the History of Language Learning and Teaching (HoLLT)

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Nicola, Richard

• Lepsius as a linguist: fieldwork, philology, phonetics, and ‘the Hamitic hypothesis’

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Floris

• Towards the Semantics of Music: The Twentieth Century

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Mihailo

• Poetic Law and the Medieval Irish Linguist: Contextualizing the Vices and Virtues of Verse Composition in Auraicept na nÉces

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Deborah

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