About this journal
Aims and scope
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia was founded in 1939 by the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, and has been an influential international platform for linguistic research ever since. Since 2009 the journal has been published in association with Routledge and continues to build on the strong traditions of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen through local management and editorship. Supported by an international editorial board of acclaimed scholars from across the linguistic field, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia welcomes high-calibre contributions from all areas of linguistics, but pays special attention to research within functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. The journal embraces synchronic as well as diachronic perspectives, and carries articles that address language-specific as well as cross-linguistic and typological research questions. The journal appears twice a year and regularly publishes special issues devoted to particular themes and disciplines. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial evaluation by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to single anonymized peer review by independent expert referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 18K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.881 (2023) SNIP
- 0.157 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 23 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 37% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors
Sune Gregersen - Kiel University, Germany
Lars Heltoft -University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kim Ebensgaard Jensen - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Line Burholt Kristensen - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Henrik Høeg Müller -Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark
Peter Juul Nielsen -University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Sune Sønderberg Mortensen - Roskilde University, Denmark
Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen -Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Editorial Board
Henning Andersen -University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Johan van der Auwera -University of Antwerp, Belgium
Kasper Boye - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sonia Cristofaro -Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Kristin Davidse - University of Leuven, Belgium
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjarke Frellesvig -University of Oxford, UK
Frans Gregersen -University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hartmut Haberland -Roskilde University, Denmark
Peter Harder -University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kees Hengeveld -University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brian D. Joseph -Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Per Linell -University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ole Nedergaard Thomsen -Ankiro Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Unn Røyneland -University of Oslo, Norway
Abstracting and indexing
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
JournalSeek
MLA International Bibliography
Scopus (Elsevier)
Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
Open access
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 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.
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- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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2 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics (1965 - current)
Formerly known as
- Acta Linguistica (1939 - 1964)
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