Name: List of Top Journals of Applied Linguistics sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-07-18T20:35:51Z
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14.5K(top 50%)

PR articles

145.6K(top 50%)

PR citations

128(top 50%)

PR h-index

168(top 50%)

h-index

16.5K

documents

219.7K

doc citations

Top Journals (by peer-reviewed citations)

#	Journal	Citations
1	System	5.1K
2	Studies in Corpus Linguistics	3.9K
3	Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics	3.6K
4	Modern Language Journal	3.5K
5	Language Teaching Research	3.4K
6	Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research	3.2K
7	Frontiers in Psychology	3.1K
8	Applied Linguistics	3.1K
9	Language Learning	2.8K
10	Studies in Second Language Acquisition	2.8K
11	TESOL Quarterly	2.6K
12	International Journal of Applied Linguistics	2.6K
13	Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development	2.4K
14	IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching	2.3K
15	Language Learning and Language Teaching	2.3K
16	Pragmatics and Beyond New Series	2.2K
17	Task-based Language Teaching	2.2K
18	Language Teaching	2.1K
19	Research Methods in Applied Linguistics	2.0K
20	Journal of English for Academic Purposes	1.7K

What are top citing journals?

These journals contain the most peer-reviewed articles that cite Applied Linguistics's peer-reviewed articles. Only peer-reviewed-to-peer-reviewed citations are counted.

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Top Journals (by peer-reviewed citations)