Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering general linguistics that was established in 1949. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Marta Dynel (University of Łódź).
Discipline | General linguistics |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Marta Dynel |
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History | 1949–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | 16/year |
Hybrid | |
0.916 (2021) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Lingua |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0024-3841 |
LCCN | 52036290 |
OCLC no. | 1755938 |
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In October 2015 the editors and editorial board resigned en masse to protest their inability to come to an agreement with Elsevier regarding fair pricing models for open access publishing. They subsequently started a new journal, Glossa, while Elsevier continued Lingua under new leadership. Within the linguistics community, Glossa is widely considered the legitimate continuation of the earlier journal, with Elsevier's continuation referred to as Zombie Lingua.[1][2][3][4] Following a statement from their linguistics faculties, the University of California Libraries requested that Elsevier cancel their subscription to post-2015 volumes of Lingua.[5]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 0.916.[9]