Case Study - Linguistics
Journal Profile
- Founded 1963
- Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of human language as a system of communication or a cognitive, social and historical phenomenon
- 6 issues / 45 articles per annum
- Successfully transitioned to S20 in 2022
- Journal Impact Factor: 1.1
- Journal Citescore: 2.0
- Publishes: Articles and Replies
- Editor in Chief: Volker Gast. University of Jena, Germany
Impact of S20 Transition: Readership
- Overall journal readership increased 16% between 2022 and 2023
- Journal is attracting readers from 100+ more countries under the S20 model compared with the closed access model
- Comparing OA article output in 2022/2021 and closed article output in 2021, we can see almost seven times more usage for OA articles than for closed articles.
Impact of S20 Transition: Citations
Top ten articles contributing to 2022 JIF
Impact of S20 Transition: Citations
Offering an open access route for authors without the need to pay an APC can make the journal more competitive and lead to an increase in submissions. For some of the journals we have transitioned to S20, we have seen moderate growth in submissions. For Lingusitics, during the year of the flip, submissions decreased slightly, but then increased 15% between 2022 and 2023. It is not always possible to attribute submission trends directly to S20, and we anticipate it will take several years to understand the true impact on submissions in more detail.
Top ten articles contributing to 2022 JIF
Prof. Dr. Volker Gast,
Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics
"As the Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics I am very happy about the flip to S2O in 2022. As a linguist and author, I believe that Open Access accelerates research progress, as new findings are disseminated more rapidly, and more broadly. As an editor I believe that it will give the journal even more visibility and impact. In the last two years we have received more submissions from high impact authors than previously, in some cases from authors who only submit to Open Access journals. Open Access publication is essential to the younger generations of linguists, and it is important that we, as a journal, remain attractive for them"
