Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

English Linguistics Research (ELR) publishes original, high-quality research in English linguistics.

The journal focuses on the following core areas:

Theoretical Linguistics
Syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and interface studies.

Sociolinguistics & Varieties of English
Dialectology, World Englishes, language variation, change, identity, and ideology.

Corpus Linguistics & Computational Approaches
Data-driven studies on English usage, discourse analysis, NLP applications, and multimodal/digital communication.

Applied Linguistics
Second language acquisition, TESOL/TEFL, language teacher education, curriculum and pedagogy, language assessment, EAP/ESP, and language policy.

Historical Linguistics
Evolution of English, philology, diachronic studies, and historical pragmatics.

Cognitive Linguistics & Psycholinguistics
Language processing, acquisition, mental representation, and bilingual/multilingual cognition.

All submissions must center on the English language and offer novel perspectives and meaningful advancements. All manuscripts undergo a rigorous double-anonymized peer-review process to uphold our commitment to academic excellence.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-anonymized peer-reviewed system for peer-review. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise. The review process may take 4-10 weeks. The editorial board makes the editorial decision after considering the reviewers' reports, the manuscript's scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological or analytical validity, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and any other relevant information. Possible decisions include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection with an invitation to submit a substantially revised manuscript as a new submission, or rejection.

 

Publication Frequency

Semiannual, published in June and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Indexes

CNKI

DTU Library

ERA

EuroPub

Google Scholar

Library and Archives Canada (LAC)

LOCKSS

 
 
PKP Open Archives Harvester

RePEc

ROAD

Scilit

Worldcat

 

Self-Archiving Policy

This journal supports the rights of authors to share their work and make it more widely accessible. Accordingly, we have established the following policy regarding self-archiving, also known as green open access:

  1. Preprint Version: Authors are free to deposit the preprint version of their work in any repository or website at any time without embargo.
  2. Postprint Version (Author’s Accepted Manuscript): Authors may deposit the postprint version of their work in institutional or subject repositories, or personal websites, immediately upon publication in our journal, provided that they include a link to the article's DOI on the journal's website.
  3. Published Version (Version of Record): Authors may also archive the published version of their work under the terms of the Creative Commons license chosen for the work, typically allowing for self-archiving with proper attribution. We encourage authors to include a link to the article's DOI on our journal's website when archiving the published version.

This policy is intended to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of research while respecting the integrity of the peer review process and the final published version.

 

Special Issue

To better serve the academic community, we welcome collaboration with academic and research institutions to publish special issues. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for our journal, please submit your inquiry and proposal to elr@sciedupress.com

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Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:

  • The special issue should focus on a specific research topic, conference theme, or closely related area within the journal’s scope.
  • All manuscripts submitted to the special issue will follow the same editorial and peer-review process as regular submissions.
  • Proposed guest editors and reviewers are subject to approval by the journal.
  • Proposals should be submitted to the journal at least five months before the planned publication date.
  • An article processing charge (APC) applies to each accepted article.
  • All published articles will be freely available online as open-access articles.

We are committed to facilitating the dissemination of high-quality research and knowledge through special issues. We look forward to working with you to bring your research to a wider audience. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or concerns.