Open Linguistics
About this journal
Open Linguistics is an academic peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of linguistics. The objective of this journal is to foster free exchange of ideas and provide an appropriate platform for presenting, discussing and disseminating new concepts, current trends, theoretical developments and research findings related to a broad spectrum of topics: descriptive linguistics, theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives.
Your Benefits
Why submit
Authors of Open Linguistics benefit from:
- fair and constructive peer review
- quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)
- all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions
- promotion of each published article
- free language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions
- distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide
- liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)
- secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
Why read
Open Linguistics provides an international publishing platform for research topics in linguistics. The journal publishes the most up-to-date developments, discoveries and practice.
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Article Processing Charges
In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Linguistics is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €500 (to all new submissions until 31 December 2024). The new APC of €750 shall apply from 1 January 2025 (for new manuscripts only). This fee is used to cover the costs of manuscript processing.
Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies
Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.
For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.
Call for Papers
Gestural elements in signed and spoken languages
Coordinating Editors: Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen & Sandra Debreslioska
Manuscript submission deadline: 15 March 2025
Call for Editors
Interested in becoming a Section Editor in Open Linguistics? Click here to browse the job description and the Editor's responsibilities, and fill in the application form https://forms.office.com/e/MT3z5774gV.
Journal Impact Factor | 0.5 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
5-year Journal Impact Factor | 0.8 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
Journal Citation Indicator | 0.41 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
CiteScore | 2.0 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.371 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 1.059 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Index Copernicus Value | 121.82 | 2022, ICI Journals Master List (Index Copernicus, 2023) |
MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal via online submission system Editorial Manager available for this journal at https://www.editorialmanager.com/opli/default.aspx. In case of problems, please contact the Editorial Office of this journal at AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Text files can be submitted in the following formats: MS Word - standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) or RICH TEXT FORMAT (.RTF) or OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT (.ODT) or LaTeX. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.
Authors' names must be removed from the manuscript, to enable a double-blind review process.
For further instructions, please carefully follow the guidelines described in Instructions for Authors.
EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials if requested by Referees, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is double-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.
Managing Editor
Katarzyna Inga Michalak
katarzyna-inga.michalak@degruyterbrill.com
Editorial Advisory Board
Willem Adelaar, Leiden University, Netherlands
Keith Allan, Monash University, Australia
Albert Bastardas-Boada, University of Barcelona, Spain
Teresa Cadierno, University of Southern Denmark. Denmark
Guy Cook, King's College London, UK
George van Driem, University of Bern, Switzerland
Anna V. Dybo, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicholas Evans, Australian National University, Australia
William Foley, The University of Sydney, Australia
Alexandre François, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany
Perry Gilmore, University of Arizona, USA
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Federica Guerini, University of Bergamo, Italy
John A. Hawkins, University of California Davis, USA
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, Germany
Jack Hoeksema, University of Groeningen, Netherlands
Hans Ladegaard, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Randy LaPolla, National Technological University, Singapore
Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota, USA
Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University, USA
Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, USA
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Nanjing Normal University, China/ University of Hamburg, Germany
Andrew Pawley, Australian National University, Australia
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge, UK
Hans-Jörg Schmid, Munich University, Germany
Magda Stroinska, McMaster University, Canada
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Søren Wichmann, Leiden University, Netherlands
Donald Winford, Ohio State University, USA
Edward Vajda, Western Washington University, USA
Alexander Vovin, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Ghil'ad Zuckermann, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Section Editors
Asier Alcázar, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Carla Amorós Negre, University of Salamanca, Spain
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Julia Bacskai-Atkari, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Victor Lara Bermejo, University of Cádiz, Spain
Michael Barrie, Sogang University, South Korea
Victoria Bogushevskaya, University of Bergamo, Italy
Angélica Carlet, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Qizhong Chang, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Brendan Costello, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
Daniel Dejica, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Rania Habib, Syracuse University, USA
Feng-fan Hsieh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Mimi Huang, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Elena ‘Helen’ Koulidobrova, Central Connecticut State University, USA
Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Northumbria University, UK
Giulia Magazzù, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Giuliano Mion, University of Cagliari, Italy
Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Maria Mos, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Hella Olbertz, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephen Pihlaja, Aston University, UK
Anna Pineda, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Loredana Pungã, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Lisa A. Reed, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Barry Lee Reynolds, University of Macau, Macau
Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy
Mario Serrano-Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mitsuaki Shimojo, University at Buffalo / The State University of New York, USA
Paul Sidwell, Sydney University, Australia
Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Beyza Sümer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Jozsef Szakos, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Bilyana Todorova, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Bulgaria
Gianmarco Vignozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Titela Vîlceanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Mariarosaria Zinzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Editorial Assistants
Michał Kowalczyk, De Gruyter Poland
Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com
Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15
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Supplementary Materials
- Article Processing Charges
- Author Statements
- Call for Editors_Open Linguistics
- Data Sharing Policy
- Editorial Policy
- Guidelines for Reviewers
- Instructions for Authors
- LaTeX Template
- Open Access License
- Publication Ethics Statement
- SI on Gestural elements in signed and spoken languages
- Template for Authors Statements