Journal of Writing Research

Journal of Writing Research is published by SIG Writing of EARLI 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 Writing and Handwriting Education, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Writing Research publishes publishes scientific research exploring the mental and social processes underlying written production, how writing is learned, and how it can be effectively taught, across all ages and educational contexts. We publish papers from a range of perspectives and disciplines unified by a strong commitment to methodological rigour. We provide a forum for both established experts and new talent. Multi-disciplinary The Journal of Writing Research publishes papers drawing, in any combination, on research and theory in linguistics, psychology, instructional science, and related disciplines that come under the broad umbrella of writing research. Articles Most papers published in JoWR report original research. We also welcome methods papers and literature reviews. Papers reporting new empirical studies may use any appropriate data collection methods, and we welcome both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Papers describing teaching practice are welcome if they contribute to a theoretical understanding of how writing can be effectively taught, and if they report robust evidence of efficacy through controlled evaluation of effects on writing performance. Papers reporting case studies are considered only where the research question addressed would not have been better answered by other methods. Most papers in JoWR report behavioural data. We also welcome papers that report linguistic analyses where these directly address questions relating to writing process, development, or instruction. We do not publish papers that report analysis of published text. Research methods articles introduce emerging or new writing-research methods, including approaches to data collection, coding, scoring, and analysis. They may describe a method, instrument, corpus, database, or technique for writing research. Articles typically have three parts. (1) Evidence for the contribution of the method, making clear what kinds of writing-research questions it will help answer. Authors should provide a detailed summary of previous approaches and make clear the gap that the new method will fill. (2) A precise description of the method giving sufficient detail to allow readers to use it in their own research. (3) Illustrative findings from research using the method. Findings must be unpublished, but could be new analysis of already-reported data, and do not necessarily need to test strong hypotheses. We invite review papers on any topic relevant to our

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 8%); most named Belgium 4, Sweden 3, United States 2, Mainland China 1, United Kingdom 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

3.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

43OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

150OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.75OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

82.35%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

12LetPub · 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)

about 40 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 40 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

SIG Writing of EARLI

Country or region

Belgium

Language

English

ISSN

2030-1006

Electronic ISSN

2294-3307

Latest issue on the website

Volume 18, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
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• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
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