Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering general linguistics that was established in 1949. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Lise Fontaine (University of Quebec).
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| Discipline | General linguistics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Lise Fontaine |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1949–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | 16/year |
| Hybrid | |
| 1.6 (2025) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Lingua |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0024-3841 |
| LCCN | 52036290 |
| OCLC no. | 1755938 |
| Links | |
History
editIn October 2015 the editors and editorial board resigned en masse to protest their inability to come to an agreement with Elsevier regarding fair pricing models for open access publishing. They subsequently started a new journal, Glossa since Elsevier refused to relinquish the rights on the name Lingua.[1][2]
Elsevier has continued Lingua under new leadership. Within the linguistics community, some consider Glossa as having inherited the reputation of the earlier journal. Elsevier's continuation is referred to (by some linguists) as Zombie Lingua and is regarded as a new journal.[1][3][4][5] Following a statement from their linguistics faculties, the University of California Libraries requested that Elsevier cancel their subscription to post-2015 volumes of Lingua.[6] In a joint post on Language Log in 2016, Eric Baković and Kai von Fintel noted lower quality standards at the new Lingua which included a paper withdrawn due to plagiarism.[7]
Abstracting and indexing
editThe journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index[8]
- Current Contents/Arts & Humanities[8]
- EBSCO databases[9]
- FRANCIS[9]
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature[9]
- L'Année philologique[9]
- Linguistic Bibliography[9]
- Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts[9]
- Modern Language Association Database[9]
- Scopus[10]
- Social Sciences Citation Index[8]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2025 impact factor of 1.6.[11]
References
edit- 1 2 Jaschik, Scott (2015-11-02). "Language of Protest". Inside Higher Ed.
- ↑ "Language Log » Lingua is dead. Long live Glossa!".
- ↑ Moody, Glyn (2015-11-03). "Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access". Ars Technica.
- ↑ Fister, Barbara (2015-11-12). "Whose Journal is This, Anyway?". Inside Higher Ed.
- ↑ Baković, Eric (August 17, 2017), More Zombie Lingua shenanigans, Language Log
- ↑ UC linguistics faculty pledge support for Glossa, call for cancellation of Lingua, University of California Office of Scholarly Communication, 2016-02-16
- ↑ Baković, Eric; von Fintel, Kai (September 30, 2016), Asleep at the wheel at Zombie Lingua?, Language Log
- 1 2 3 "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Lingua". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ↑ "Source details: Lingua". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ↑ "Lingua". 2025 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2026.