Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research is published by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language Development and Disorders, Phonetics and Phonology Research and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, together about 37.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Developmental and Educational Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Mission: JSLHR publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on the normal and disordered processes in speech, language, hearing, and related areas such as cognition, oral-motor function, and swallowing. The journal is an international outlet for both basic research on communication processes and clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, and management of communication disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. JSLHR seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work. Scope: The broad field of communication sciences and disorders, including speech production and perception; anatomy and physiology of speech and voice; genetics, biomechanics, and other basic sciences pertaining to human communication; mastication and swallowing; speech disorders; voice disorders; development of speech, language, or hearing in children; normal language processes; language disorders; disorders of hearing and balance; psychoacoustics; and anatomy and physiology of hearing.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-REHABILITATION

Editor-in-chief Jessica HuberPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.82LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

122LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

224OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

5,121OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.4OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.64%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

369LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

4–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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Publisher

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Founded

1997

ISSN

1092-4388

Electronic ISSN

1558-9102

Latest issue on the website

Volume 69 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website