Journal profile · AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Language and Speech
ISSN 0023-8309 · eISSN 1756-6053 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Founded 1958
Language and Speech: CAS Zone 2 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.14; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 393 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); community-reported acceptance: easy; 53 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Language and Speech is published by SAGE Publications Inc. 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 Phonetics and Phonology Research, Linguistic Variation and Morphology and Language Development and Disorders, together about 40.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Language and Speech is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of human production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language. The journal accepts reports of original research in all these areas. … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Cynthia Clopper OhioPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5, Canada 4, Germany 2, Netherlands 2, United Kingdom 1 (15 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Phonetics and Phonology ResearchPsychology22.9%
- Linguistic Variation and MorphologySocial Sciences10.8%
- Language Development and DisordersPsychology6.9%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology6.4%
- Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismNeuroscience6.3%
- Speech Recognition and SynthesisComputer Science6.1%
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationArts and Humanities4.2%
- Speech and dialogue systemsComputer Science4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 3 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Literature Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 1.14LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.11LetPub ·
- h-index
- 45LetPub ·
- h-index
- 137OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,110OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.01OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 38.35%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 52LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,052 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | 29 | 19 |
| 2025 | 53 | 34 | 48 |
| 2024 | 37 | 26 | 80 |
| 2023 | 41 | 24 | 177 |
| 2022 | 44 | 22 | 315 |
| 2021 | 40 | 22 | 513 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
393 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports over 12 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 18.7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 393 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 64 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 20,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7
- book reviewLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- conference reportLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- editorialLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- literature reviewLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- original researchLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- registered reportLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
- tutorialLanguage and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the productio…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, fees will be determined and applied at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor and Managing Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscrip…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 1958
- ISSN
- 0023-8309
- Electronic ISSN
- 1756-6053
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Language and Speech
What CAS zone is Language and Speech in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Language and Speech is in Zone 2 of Literature, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Audiology & Speech-language Pathology / Psychology, Experimental / Linguistics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Language and Speech?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.14; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 137.
How long does peer review take at Language and Speech?
The publisher reports about 393 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 18.7%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Language and Speech?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 20,000 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Language and Speech based?
Of the 15 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5), Canada (4) and Germany (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Language and Speech?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Language and Speech is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Language and Speech open access, and what is the APC?
Language and Speech is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .