Bilingualism-Language and Cognition

Bilingualism-Language and Cognition is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 2 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development and Language Development and Disorders, together about 49.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is an international peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on bilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific perspective. The aims of the journal are to promote research on the bilingual and multilingual person and to encourage debate in the field. Areas covered include: bilingual language competence, bilingual language processing, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, bimodal bilingualism, neurolinguistics of bilingualism in normal and brain-damaged individuals, computational modelling of bilingual language competence and performance, and the study of cognitive functions in bilinguals. The journal maintains an inclusive attitude to research involving all languages, and we specifically encourage the study of less well researched languages (including especially minority and minoritized languages) to increase our understanding of how language and cognition interact in the bilingual individual. BLC carries articles and research notes on all aspects of the bilingual person, including articles presenting research methods and research tools pertinent to the field of bilingualism, such as Li et al.’s Language history questionnaire (BLC 17 (3), 2014, 673-680) and other bilingualism tests.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Jubin AbutalebiPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 4%); most named United States 16, Germany 6, Italy 5, United Kingdom 4, Hong Kong, China 3 (55 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

58Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.68LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

140OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,082OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

88.58%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

136LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISSN

1366-7289

Electronic ISSN

1469-1841

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website