Journal of Language Identity and Education

Journal of Language Identity and Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning and Second Language Learning and Teaching, together about 65.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Language, Identity, and Education is an international forum for original research on the intersections of language, identity, and education in global and local contexts. We are interested in interdisciplinary studies that examine how issues of language impact individual and community identities and intersect with educational practices and policies. In order to publish in JLIE, a study must have a central focus on second, foreign, minority, heritage, or indigenous languages (or non-standard dialects) and their intersection with either identity and/or education. We welcome a variety of topics, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches (both qualitative and quantitative). We are particularly interested in: Studies that make tangible differences in the lives of language learners, teachers, and language minority communities broadly construed, as opposed to theoretical papers for the sake of arguing theory; Studies that address questions of how monolinguistic and monoculturalist approaches to education reproduce existing power relations in society and narrow the range of identities that individual language learners and teachers can claim for themselves; Studies that highlight the potential of multilingual and multicultural approaches to counteract and challenge existing societal forces; Studies on language and educational policies and approaches that explicitly address various dimensions of diversity and linguistic rights in educational contexts; Critical studies of literacy policies, biliteracy development, policies and practices impacting linguistically minority students or other second language learners; Research on innovations or on the effectiveness of various language education program models (e.g. English as a second language (ESL), bilingual education, dual language education, indigenous language education, heritage language education, foreign/world language education, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), sheltered content-area instruction, etc. Research on the relationship between home/local linguistic and cultural socialization and schooling; Critical studies about linguistic bias in schooling practices; Research on educational practices that promote educational equity for linguistically diverse student populations; Linguistic minority group-specific studies on special needs/issues and on effective educational policies and practices. JLIE is an international journal and therefore a study that is situated in a pa

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIAHCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceERICPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Gale Academic OneFile, Educator's Reference Complete, Gender Studies Collection, Ovid, ProQuest Education Database), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest 5000 International, ProQuest Central Research Library, Social Science Premium Collection, Taylor & Francis Educational Research Abstracts Online, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

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.

Impact

Impact factor

1.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

5.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.74Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

72OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

437OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.76OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

11.17%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

169,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

12%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

36 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

114 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

115 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1534-8458

Electronic ISSN

1532-7701

Latest issue on the website

Volume 25, Issue 5 (2026)

Official links

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