2024 LLT Annual Report

Founded in 1997, LLT is currently in its 28th year of publication and the journal's editorial staff and audience continue to grow.The LLT Listserv has 6,525 subscribers as of the end of 2024, slightly down from 6,663 in 2023.The ISI Journal Citation Reports Impact Factor increased to 5.6 in 2024.The journal maintained a high ranking, considering the significantly increased number of journals included in the calculation for both years.Specifically, the number of journals in the Linguistics category rose from 297 in 2023 to 303 in 2024, and in Education decreased from 760 to 756, in 2024.This broader base may have influenced the overall impact factor rankings.Despite the significant increase in the number of journals considered in the calculation, LLT ranks 48 among peer Education & Educational Research journals (93.7 JIF Percentile, i.e., LLT scores higher than 93% of the journals in this category), and decreased to 17 among peer journals in Linguistics (94.6 JIF Percentile, i.e., LLT scores higher than 94% of the journals in the Linguistics category).Because of the fluctuations in the number of journals considered in the equation, the percentile measure is a more stable indicator and has consistently placed in Q1 (the journal performs better than at least 75% of journals in that category, based on its Impact Factor score) in the last 5 years (Tables 1 &2).In 2024, the 5-year Impact Factor score increased to 5.6 (see Appendix B).Since January 2022, LLT has been published following a Continuous Article Publication (CAP) model.LLT received 607 submissions in 2024, up from 418 in 2023, a 45.22% increase in the number of submissions.During 2024, LLT published 56 new articles, columns, and reviews, a 30.23% increase in the number of published items.Looking forward to the future, LLT will continue to implement changes where necessary in order to better serve its target audience and increase its impact, including with research on the less-commonly taught languages.