ImpaQ Ecosystem•Clarivate, Scopus & CORE Data
Clarivate WoS 2024 / 2025 Data
IMPAQ
WoS ESCI Q1Scopus Q1SCImago #5,165Top JournalDiamond OAGold OA

ESP Today-Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level

Identifier (ISSN):2334-9050(Print)
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Publisher:Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade
Clarivate JCR Index Advisory: Active (ESCI)
Clarivate IF (2026)
2.4↑ +0.2
Journal Impact Factor
IF Trend↓
WoS Quartile
Q1
WoS ESCITop Tier
Clarivate WoS JCR
WoS Categories↓
JCR Release Date: 2026-06-17

Impact Factor Trend (2023–2026)

Clarivate IF trend for ESP Today-Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level

WoS Q1
01340.720230.920242.220252.42026
Annual Impact Factor Metric
Current (2026):2.4
Scopus SJR & RankScopus Q1
0.967
#5,165

SCImago Journal Rank citation prestige weighting

Scopus Year: 2025
H-Index (2025)
16

16 papers with at least that number of citations each

WoS: ESCITop Tier
Self-Citation Rate33.3%
Safe Level (< 15%)Warning Level (> 20%)
Self-citation below 15% indicates strong scholarly independence.
Volume & Open AccessGold OA
15articles/year
100% Gold OA•100% Original Research

Aims & Scope

ESP Today – Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level is an online open access double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers covering all areas of English for Specific Purposes in the context of tertiary education. The Journal is aimed at ESP researchers, scholars and practitioners worldwide. ESP Today comes out biannually (in June and in December) and welcomes submissions of previously unpublished research papers on a variety of topics taking a broadly defined tertiary-level ESP perspective on: needs analysis, teaching material preparation, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, approaches to ESP teaching and learning, ESP and language skills, ESP vocabulary, genre and discourse analysis, critical perspectives on ESP, multimodality in ESP, cognitive approaches to ESP, ethnographic approaches to ESP, corpus-based approaches to ESP, contact linguistics and ESP, interdisciplinary approaches to ESP, contrastive and cross-cultural approaches to ESP.

Topics Covered (Recognized by AI)
PsychologyComputer SciencePhilosophyLinguisticsSociologyMathematicsMathematics EducationPolitical ScienceEducationLawMedicine
Primary Research Areas

WoS Categories & Quartiles

Detailed JCR / JCI category rankings and quartile breakdown from Clarivate

Clarivate JCR & JCI
JCRESCI2026

LINGUISTICS

Q1
Rank58/312
IndexESCI
JCIESCI2026

LINGUISTICS

Q1
Rank76/312
IndexESCI

Annual Historical Statistics & Publications

Track annual publication volume, total citations, and Impact Factor evolution

12 year
2026Latest
IF2.4
Articles / Year9
Total Citations0
2025
IF2.2
Articles / Year18
Total Citations9
2024
IF0.9
Articles / Year17
Total Citations20
2023
IF0.7
Articles / Year26
Total Citations126
2022
IF—
Articles / Year6
Total Citations102

SCImago & Scopus Journal Intelligence

Global SCImago ranking, SJR prestige index, Scopus coverage, and societal policy impact

Rank #5,165Scopus Q1Diamond OASCImago Profile
Scopus Coverage:2013-2026
Scopus Broad Areas:Social Sciences
Scopus Citation Rank (SJR)Q1
0.967

Weighted prestige citation metric per document indexed in the Scopus database.

Quartile: Scopus Q1
Citations / Doc (2 years)
2.59

Average citations received per document published in the 2-year window.

2-Year Citation Window
Estimated Publication Fee (APC)
100% Free

Diamond Open Access: Authors publish completely free of charge with zero author-facing fees.

Diamond Open Access

Scopus 3-Year Publication & Citation Window

3-Year Citations169
3-Year Documents48
Citable Documents46

Aggregated from Scopus database across the 3-year SJR evaluation window.

Societal Impact & Inclusivity (SCImago)

Policy Citations (Overton)0

Citations in government and international policy documents

Female Author Rate67.7%

Percentage of female authors published in the journal

Real-world societal policy reach and author gender diversity tracked by SCImago.

Scopus Subject Categories

Linguistics and LanguageQ1
Academic Metric Intelligence

Journal Metrics & Citation Visualizations

Total Cites vs Self-Cites

Evaluation of scholarly independence and citation reach

Total citations steady growth
Self-citation: 33.3%

Citations per Document

Citation metric windows across 2, 3, and 4 years

Cites / Doc (4 years)Cites / Doc (3 years)Cites / Doc (2 years)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Classification

Major / minor zone classification and CAS Early Warning List history

Major Category (Broad Field):
1区 (Zone 1)Literature
Minor Category (Specific Field):
2区LINGUISTICS
CAS Early Warning List History:
Updated annually: 2020 – 2024
2020
Not warned
2021
Not warned
2022
Not warned
2023
Not warned
2024
Not warned

Academic Intelligence Overview & Context

ImpaQ Analysis

ESP Today-Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level (ISSN: 2334-9050) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of LINGUISTICS, published by Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade in Serbia. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 2.40, ranking in quartile Q1 of Web of Science (ESCI), a Scopus SJR indicator of 0.967 (Q1), an H-index of 16.

The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with an annual output of approximately 15 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Gold OA model with Diamond Open Access (100% free of author APC charges). It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.

Publishing & Editorial Information

Detailed publisher, peer-review turnaround, and publication cycle specifications

Open Access Model
Gold OA
Publisher
Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade
Publication Language
English
Frequency
Periodic
Indexing & Databases
ESCIScopusDOAJPubMed

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