Sociolinguistic Studies

Aims & Scope

Sociolinguistic Studies is the new title of Estudios de Sociolingüística, a journal founded in 2000 at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain) which offers a linguistic and cultural bridge between sociolinguistic research in the Romance world – especially the Spanish and Latino-American world – and the English-speaking research community.

All articles in Sociolinguistic Studies are double-blind, peer-reviewed (with 3 reports in five weeks) and may be in English, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese or French (90% of the contents are in English).

It takes an ecumenical approach to the different schools, methodological principles or research orientations within sociolinguistic research and also accepts contributions from related fields such as pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, interactional linguistics, language acquisition and socialization, linguistic anthropology, ethnomethodology and the ethnography of communication.

Papers may examine any issue in sociolinguistic research including, but not limited to,styles and registers, communicative situations and speech events, politeness, bilingual conversation and code-switching, gender and discourse, language attitudes, language ideologies, the diversity of the worldwide linguistic situation, bilingualism and multilingualism, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, language and culture and language and identity.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.183

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	22269

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	26

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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.

• Epistemología, metodología y técnicas del análisis de contenido

  Citation: 103

  Authors: José Luis Piñuel

• The monolingual mindset as an impediment to the development of plurilingual potential in Australia

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Michael

• “Christ fucking shit merde!” Language Preferences for Swearing Among Maximally Proficient Multilinguals

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Jean-Marc

• Counting the losses: numbers as the language of language endangerment

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Robert E, Sari, Jan

• Blistering barnacles! What language do multilinguals Swear in?!

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Jean-Marc

• Monolingual ideologies in multilingual states

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Adrian

• A Kente of Many Colours: Multilingualism as a Complex Ecology of Language Shift in Ghana

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Adams, Jemima Asabea, Josephine

• Private language planning

  Citation: 46

  Authors: Ingrid

• A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Richard, Hongyin

• Néo-breton and questions of authenticity

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Michael

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