About this journal

Aims and scope

The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction.

Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers.

Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.

Peer Review Policy: All articles have undergone anonymous double anonymized review.


Brief History of ROLSI

The journal has an intriguing pre-history as Papers in Linguistics (first published 1969), edited by Tony Vanek, which published adventurous and often unconventional essays. (Curious readers can still read such papers as "Organismic communicology: a second prologue - Reflection, shadow, and illusion", in volume 14 via on the publishers' webpages.)

The journal as we know now it started when Stuart Sigman took over Papers in Linguistics on the death of Tony Vanek in 1987. He renamed it Research on Language in Social Interaction, putting out a double issue on multi-channel codes. Thereafter Robert Sanders took on the responsibilities of Editor (with Sigman staying on as Associate Editor), and widened the network of reviewers and contributors to better capture the field of work implied in the title of the journal.

It didn't take long after the move to publishing interactional research before the success of the journal attracted the interest of an ambitious publisher, and the firm of Lawrence Erlbaum bought the title in 1993. That gave the journal the professional support to publish quarterly.

The journal prospered under the continued editorship of Bob Sanders, and thereafter Karen Tracy, Don Zimmerman and Kristine Fitch, with an average editorial reign of about five years. While Fitch was editor, Erlbaum was taken over by Taylor and Francis, who are now our publishers.

The journal has long been international in scope, contributors and readership, and when Charles Antaki took over as Editor in 2010, he was the first from outside the USA. He has been joined since 2019 by the distinguished scholar Leelo Keevallik as Associate Editor.

Past editors:
Tony Vanek (when Papers in Linguistics)
Stuart Sigman
Robert Sanders
Karen Tracy
Don Zimmerman
Kristine Fitch

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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 87K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 4.7 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 7.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 2.749 (2023) SNIP
  • 2.258 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 84 days avg. from acceptance to online publication

Editorial board

EDITOR
Charles Antaki – Loughborough University, United Kingdom

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Leelo Keevallik – Linköping University, Sweden
Elwys De Stefani – University of Heidelberg, Germany

EDITORIAL OFFICER
Bogdana Huma, PhD – Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

PREVIOUS EDITORS
Stuart J. Sigman – University of Wisconsin, USA
Robert E. Sanders – SUNY, Albany, USA
Karen Tracy – University of Colorado, USA
Don H. Zimmerman – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Kristine Fitch – University of Iowa, USA

EDITORIAL BOARD
Galina Bolden – Rutgers University, USA
Steven Clayman – University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen – University of Helsinki, Finland
Arnulf Deppermann – Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany
Giolo Fele – University of Trento, Italy
Renata Galatolo – University of Bologna, Italy
Yumei Gan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Rod Gardner – University of Queensland, Australia
Pentti Haddington – University of Oulu, Finland
Makoto Hayashi – Nagoya University, Japan
John Heritage – University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Kobin Kendrick – University of York, United Kingdom
Stephanie Hyeri Kim – California State University Northridge, USA
Eric Laurier – University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Christian Licoppe – Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Ni Eng Lim – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lorenza Mondada – University of Basel, Switzerland
Richard Ogden – University of York, United Kingdom
Innhwa Park – West Chester University, USA
Jeffrey D. Robinson – Portland State University, USA
Johanna Ruusuvouri – Tampere University, Finland
Melisa Stevanovic – Tampere University, Finland
Tanya Stivers – University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Merran Toerien – University of York, United Kingdom
Ann Weatherall – University of Bedfordshire,, United Kingdom
Kevin A. Whitehead – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Abstracting and indexing

Abstracted/Indexed in: Linguistic Bibliography (Online), Language Teaching (Online), Current Contents, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Scopus, E-psyche, OCLC Sociological Abstracts (Online), Ovid PsychINFO, ProQuest online research databases, Educational Research Abstracts Online, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Online), Linguistics Abstracts (Online).

Open access

Research on Language and Social Interaction is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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Society information

Members of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the International Society for Conversation Analysis can receive an individual print subscription to Research on Language & Social Interaction at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.

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