Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses

Aims & Scope

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses / Alicante Journal of English Studies (RAEI) is primarily aimed at specialists in any area of English studies.

Its main goal is to publish research works that contribute to advancing humanistic knowledge.

The journal is open to original studies resulting from cutting-edge research.

Only manuscripts in English are accepted.

The journal has been published in print since its foundation, and an open-access online version is also available on its website for free.

Manuscripts submitted can be: Articles on linguistics, language teaching, literature, literary theory and critique, history and other cultural aspects of English-speaking countries.

Reviews of recently published books in the field of English studies (the book must have appeared within the two years preceding the submission of the review).

This publication has exchange agreements in place with similar journals in the same field of study.

All such proposals must be made in writing and sent to the journal’s email address.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and 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

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and 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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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.

• Politeness: a relevant issue for relevance theory

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Victoria

• Writing with conviction: the use of boosters in modelling persuasion in academic discourses

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Ignacio, Diana

• A theoretical review of the speech act of suggesting: towards a taxonomy for its use in FLT

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Alicia

• Teaching intercultural communicative competence through the four skills

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Esther, Alicia

• Beyond mood and modality: epistemic modality markers as hedges in research articles. A cross-disciplinary study

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Ignacio, Diana

• A cross-cultural analysis of heart metaphors

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Regina

• Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Javier

• Linguistic devices coping with death in Victorian obituaries

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Eliecer

• Why are you late?: cross-cultural pragmatic study of complaints in American English and Ukrainian

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Iryna

• Towards a typological classification of linguistic borrowing (illustrated with anglicisms in Romance languages)

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Juan