Journal of Second Language Writing

The Journal of Second Language Writing is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of linguistics and language education. Its scope encompasses all aspects of second and foreign language writing, including writing instruction and assessment. It was established in 1992 and is published quarterly by Elsevier. The current editors-in-chief are Youjin Kim (Georgia State University) and Stephen Doolan (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi). The founding editors were Ilona Leki (University of Tennessee) and Tony Silva (Purdue University).

Journal of Second Language Writing

Discipline	Linguistics, education
Language	English
Edited by	Amanda Kibler, Todd Ruecker
Publication details
History	1992-present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.538 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Second Lang. Writ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1873-1422
LCCN	92643958
OCLC no.	45343364
Links
Journal homepage Online access

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 5, ranking it 13th out of 194 journals in the category "Linguistics".^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the following services:^[2]

• Arts & Humanities Search
• Communication Abstracts
• Current Contents
• Educational Research Abstracts Online
• Education Resources Information Center
• CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• Language Teaching
• Linguistics Abstracts
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index

See also

• List of applied linguistics journals