Journal profile · LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Italiano LinguaDue

ISSN 2037-3597 · Università degli Studi di Milano · Italy

Italiano LinguaDue: CAS Zone 4 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 226 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.

Impact factor—No published value

CAS zoneZone 4 · Literature2025 upgraded edition, major category · 2026 Xinrui edition Zone 4 · Literature

Review timeabout 6 weeksCommunity average

APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)

Acceptance—No reports yet

Articles per year2262025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Italiano LinguaDue is published by Università degli Studi di Milano and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition, Educational and Social Studies and Second Language Learning and Teaching, together about 53.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Italiano LinguaDue si rivolge a studiosi, insegnanti, formatori che operano nel campo dell'insegnamento della lingua italiana come lingua seconda o straniera, ma anche, nel più ampio e comprensivo campo dell'educazione linguistica in contesti plurilingui e multiculturali, come lingua madre e agli studenti delle facoltà di lettere, di lingue straniere e di mediazione culturale.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Editor-in-chief Franco PiernoPublisher website

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

Linguistic Studies and Language AcquisitionComputer Science35%
Educational and Social StudiesSocial Sciences9.8%
Second Language Learning and TeachingArts and Humanities9.2%
Linguistic Education and PedagogyArts and Humanities8.2%
Italian Literature and CultureArts and Humanities5.2%
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and IdentityArts and Humanities3.2%
Spanish Linguistics and Language StudiesArts and Humanities3.1%
Diverse academic and cultural studiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.8%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 4

Level	Category	Zone
Major	Literature	Zone 4
Minor	Language & Linguistics	Zone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: no

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 4

Level	Category	Zone
Major	Literature	Zone 4
Minor	Language & Linguistics	Zone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: not marked

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

ESCIDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Google Scholar, BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, ROAD - Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, PLEIADI - Portale per la Letteratura Scientifica, ACNP - Catalogo Italiano dei PeriodiciPublisher website

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

h-index: 8OpenAlex · 2026-10-01
i10-index: 6OpenAlex · 2026-10-01
2-year mean citedness: 0.46OpenAlex · 2026-10-01
Self-citation rate: 75%LetPub · 2026-09-13
Share of gold OA articles: 47.97%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year: 189LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 688 in total · the current year is incomplete

Year	Articles	Open access	Citations
2026	53	53	0
2025	226	226	92
2024	73	73	71
2023	208	208	270
2022	109	109	170
2021	1	1	0

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Average review time (community reports): about 6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported): about 12 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25
Peer review: Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ

Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.

Source	APC	Fee waiver	License	Observed
DOAJ	No APC	No	CC BY-SA	2026-10-25
LetPub	No APC	No	—	2026-09-13

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

Article types accepted1

research articlesLa sezione Italiano lingua seconda/straniera è dedicata a studi e ricerche sull'insegnamento /apprendimento dell'italiano in Italia e all'estero, sull'italiano …Length not stated

Publisher website

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism

Authorship Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.