MIT Press journals earn high impact factors in 2023, with notable strength in linguistics

Several journals from the MIT Press, including many in linguistics, achieved impressive impact factors this past year

2024-06-27

(Press-News.org) We are pleased to share that many MIT Press journals were ranked highly in their fields in 2023, earning exceptional impact factors—which measure recent citation activity for scholarship—and placing in the top quartile of all journals for their areas of study.

Several MIT Press journals in linguistics landed in the top of the field—including Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics at #6 out of all 297 linguistics journals in publication; Computational Linguistics at #10; Neurobiology of Language at #14; and Linguistic Inquiry at #77. We are especially pleased to see Neurobiology of Language do so well as it enters into its fifth year of publication.

“This year’s strong showing from MIT Press journals is a welcome reminder of our journals' continued importance to their communities,” says MIT Press Journals and Open Access Director, Nick Lindsay.

13 MIT Press journals were listed in the top quartile in their areas of study, with five listed in the top 10:

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is #3 out of 393 journals in Language and Linguistics Computational Linguistics is #5 out of 393 journals in Language and Linguistics International Security is #3 out of 165 journals in International Relations Daedalus is #7 out of 406 journals in Humanities, Multidisciplinary Global Environmental Politics is #9 out of 165 journals in International Relations Neurobiology of Language is #14 out of 297 journals in Linguistics Asian Economic Papers is #49 out of 602 journals in Economics The Review of Economics and Statistics is #13 out of 602 journals in Economics Evolutionary Computation is #22 out of 143 journals in Computer Science, Theory & Method Quantitative Science Studies is #27 out of 161 journals in Information Science & Library Science Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is #18 out of 99 journals in Psychology, Experimental Journal of Cold War Studies is #54 out of 520 journals in History Linguistic Inquiry is #77 out of 297 journals in Linguistics Congratulations to our journals’ editorial teams for their remarkable achievements in 2023, and we look forward to continued successes in the year to come.

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