Language Policy

Aims & Scope

Language Policy is highly relevant to scholars, students, specialists and policy-makers working in the fields of applied linguistics, language policy, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning.

The journal aims to contribute to the field by publishing high-quality studies that build a sound theoretical understanding of the field of language policy and cover a range of cases, situations and regions worldwide.

A distinguishing feature of this journal is its focus on various dimensions of language educational policy.

Language education policy includes decisions about which languages are to be used as a medium of instruction and/or taught in schools, as well as analysis of these policies within their social, ethnic, religious, political, cultural and economic contexts.

The journal aims to continue its tradition of bringing together solid scholarship on language policy and language education policy from around the world but also to expand its direction into new areas.

The editors are very interested in papers that explore language policy not only at national levels but also at the institutional levels of schools, workplaces, families, health services, media and other entities.

In particular, we welcome theoretical and empirical papers with sound qualitative or quantitative bases that critically explore how language policies are developed at local and regional levels, as well as on how they are enacted, contested and negotiated by the targets of that policy themselves.

We seek papers on the above topics as they are researched and informed through interdisciplinary work within related fields such as education, anthropology, politics, linguistics, economics, law, history, ecology, and geography.

We particularly are interested in papers from lesser-covered parts of the world of Africa and Asia.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6124

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	254

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.858

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	47

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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.

• Invisible and visible language planning: ideological factors in the family language policy of Chinese immigrant families in Quebec

  Citation: 356

  Authors: Xiao Lan

• Multilingual language policies and the continua of biliteracy: An ecological approach

  Citation: 343

  Authors: Nancy H.

• English Language Education in China: Policies, Progress, and Problems

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Guangwei

• English-medium instruction at a Chinese University: rhetoric and reality

  Citation: 211

  Authors: Guangwei, Linna, Jun

• Power and agency in language policy appropriation

  Citation: 169

  Authors: David Cassels, Eric J.

• Ethnography of language policy

  Citation: 160

  Authors: David Cassels

• Researching ‘practiced language policies’: insights from conversation analysis

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Florence

• Family language policy: sociopolitical reality versus linguistic continuity

  Citation: 135

  Authors: Xiao Lan

• English as a medium of instruction in the Gulf: When students and teachers speak

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Hassan, Maha

• Marketing, management and performance: multilingualism as commodity in a tourism call centre

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Alexandre

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