Journal of Sociolinguistics

The Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers topics in sociolinguistics. Its scope encompasses a wide range of languages treated from a multidisciplinary point of view. It was established in 1997 and appears four times a year. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the current editors in chief are Lauren Hall-Lew (the University of Edinburgh), Jaspal Naveel Singh (the Open University), and Andrew Wong (California State University, East Bay).

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Discipline	Sociolinguistics
Language	English
Edited by	Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
Publication details
History	1997–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell (United Kingdom)
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	1.5 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Socioling.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1360-6441 (print) 1467-9841 (web)
LCCN	97657172
OCLC no.	49863808
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the following services:^[1]

• Academic Search and Academic Search Premier
• Communication & Mass Media Index
• CSA Biological Sciences Database
• CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Ecology Abstracts
• Educational Research Abstracts Online
• FRANCIS
• IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature
• Journal Citation Reports, Social Science Edition
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
• PsycINFO
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Social Services Abstracts
• SocINDEX
• Sociological Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.200.^[2]