Language Dynamics and Change

Aims & Scope

Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change.

Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest.

A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics.

Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14374

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	17

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.377

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	20

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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.

• Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Christian, Bodo

• The spread of agriculture in eastern Asia

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Chris J., Dorian Q

• Molecular Perspectives on the Bantu Expansion: A Synthesis

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Brigitte, Cesare, Koen

• Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Martijn, Jack, Gosse, Josef, John, Mark

• Some Principles on the Use of Macro-Areas in Typological Comparison

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Harald, Mark

• Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Brigitte, Hilde, Bonny, Koen

• The Placement of the Head that Minimizes Online Memory

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Ramon

• A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Lydia, Michael, Peter

• Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Gerhard

• The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Jürgen, Katharine T., Randi E., Elena, Alyson, Carolyn K., Gabriela, Alejandra, Néstor, María, Samuel, Enrique, Gilles, Rodrigo

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