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2023 CiteScore: 2.9! “Arts and Humanities” and “Social Sciences” Rank in the top 13% Globally

2023 CiteScore: 2.9! “Arts and Humanities” and “Social Sciences” Rank in the top 13% Globally

We are delighted to announce that Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education has achieved an impressive impact factor of 1.5, ranking Q2 in both the Linguistics and Education & Education Research. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education has achieved 2023 CiteScore of 2.9, ranking in the top 13% in both the “Arts and Humanities” and “Social Sciences” categories! It is ranked 132nd out of 1088 journals in the Arts and Humanities category (Language and Linguistics) and 150th out of 1167 journals in the “Social Sciences” category (Linguistics and Language).

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the authors, reviewers, and editorial board members for their steadfast dedication and valuable contributions to the journal. It is through their combined efforts that this journal has achieved such an impact factor. We are also grateful for the trust and support of Springer, without which our success would not have been possible.

We are committed to serving as a forum for linguistic and experimental research on second and foreign language education, promoting collaboration and driving the evolution of language acquisition.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.5
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.7
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.382
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.530

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 113

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 465,548
    Altmetric mentions: 59

This journal is indexed by

  • Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Scopus
  • Google Scholar
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • EBSCO TOC Premier
  • EBSCO Education Source 
  • ERIC
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon