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Ampersandopen access

Country

United Kingdom

Universities and research institutions in United Kingdom
Media Ranking in United Kingdom

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

H-Index

14

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

22150390

Coverage

2014-2023

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Scope

Serving the breadth of the general and applied linguistics communities, Ampersand offers a highly-visible, open-access home for authors. An international, peer-reviewed journal, Ampersand welcomes submissions in applied and historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics and syntax. Ampersand provides authors with an open-access venue to disseminate a wide range of linguistic research in an equally wide range of formats, prioritizing rapid peer review and publication so that researchers can share their work in its most current and innovative form. In response to the global thrust toward open source, open data and open access in science, Ampersand offers the opportunity for authors to make their research freely available to everyone, opening their work to a wider audience and increased readership. Ampersand caters to a comprehensive audience, ranging from language researchers, linguists, teachers, educationalists, practitioners to those with a general interest in language and linguistics. The journal aims to encourage the free exchange of information between researchers by being a forum for the constructive discussion and debate of issues in both theoretical and applied research. The journal welcomes all types of submission format: traditional 'full' research articles, short communications, opinion pieces, book reviews, case studies and literature reviews. Ampersand also offers the opportunity to publish special issues or sections to reflect current interest and research in topical or developing areas. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Linguistics and Language2019Q3
Linguistics and Language2020Q1
Linguistics and Language2021Q1
Linguistics and Language2022Q1
Linguistics and Language2023Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20190.141
20200.381
20210.342
20220.482
20230.399
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
20142
201515
201617
20177
20184
201911
202014
20218
202219
202357
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20140.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20151.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.294
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.765
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.780
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20191.047
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20201.462
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20211.194
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20221.811
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20231.885
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20140.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20151.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.294
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.765
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.795
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.750
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.273
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20211.207
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20221.697
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20231.659
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20140.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20151.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.294
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.719
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.417
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20191.091
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20201.467
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.760
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20221.727
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20231.963
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20140
Self Cites20150
Self Cites20160
Self Cites20170
Self Cites20181
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20200
Self Cites20210
Self Cites20222
Self Cites20234
Total Cites20140
Total Cites20152
Total Cites20165
Total Cites201726
Total Cites201831
Total Cites201921
Total Cites202028
Total Cites202135
Total Cites202256
Total Cites202368
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20140
External Cites per document20151.000
External Cites per document20160.294
External Cites per document20170.765
External Cites per document20180.769
External Cites per document20190.750
External Cites per document20201.273
External Cites per document20211.207
External Cites per document20221.636
External Cites per document20231.561
Cites per document20140.000
Cites per document20151.000
Cites per document20160.294
Cites per document20170.765
Cites per document20180.795
Cites per document20190.750
Cites per document20201.273
Cites per document20211.207
Cites per document20221.697
Cites per document20231.659
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201450.00
201520.00
20160.00
201728.57
201825.00
201918.18
20200.00
202112.50
202215.79
202335.09
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20140
Non-citable documents20150
Non-citable documents20161
Non-citable documents20171
Non-citable documents20181
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20230
Citable documents20140
Citable documents20152
Citable documents201616
Citable documents201733
Citable documents201838
Citable documents201928
Citable documents202022
Citable documents202129
Citable documents202233
Citable documents202341
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20140
Uncited documents20151
Uncited documents201612
Uncited documents201717
Uncited documents201820
Uncited documents201916
Uncited documents20208
Uncited documents202112
Uncited documents202211
Uncited documents202311
Cited documents20140
Cited documents20151
Cited documents20165
Cited documents201717
Cited documents201819
Cited documents201912
Cited documents202014
Cited documents202117
Cited documents202222
Cited documents202330
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201488.89
201542.11
201634.48
201730.00
201855.56
201970.59
202057.89
202146.67
202236.59
202352.78
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20140
Overton20150
Overton20160
Overton20170
Overton20180
Overton20190
Overton20200
Overton20211
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG20180
SDG20191
SDG20202
SDG20212
SDG20222
SDG202310
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