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Linguistics Collections Data Guide

Database Usage Statistics

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2021
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 868
APA PsycArticles 14,827 14,481
APA PsycInfo 69,643 –
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 13,488 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 129,335 76,292
ERIC (EBSCO) 36,340 –
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 13,630 –
MLA International Bibliography 21,016 –
Science Direct 19,019 270,227
Sociological Abstracts 14,712 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2020
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 1,088
APA PsycArticles 38,283 871
APA PsycInfo 65,854 34
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 20,810 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 124,281 80,008
ERIC (EBSCO) 74,633 25,568
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 11,596 –
MLA International Bibliography 19,059 –
Science Direct – 354,682
Sociological Abstracts 21,781 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2019
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 2,486
APA PsycArticles 35,835 8,626
APA PsycInfo 85,052 62
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 16,122 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 168,223 77,844
ERIC (EBSCO) 80,241 24,010
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 15,209 –
MLA International Bibliography 22,767 –
Science Direct – 373,052
Sociological Abstracts 15,501 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2018
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 2,680
APA PsycArticles 37 0
APA PsycInfo 90,523 34
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 20,719 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 193,214 102,408
ERIC (EBSCO) 42,657 19
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 18,255 –
MLA International Bibliography 1,980 –
Science Direct – 371,203
Sociological Abstracts 18,956 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2017
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 3,050
APA PsycArticles 1,635 –
APA PsycInfo 84,960 80
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 23,702 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 181,782 99,095
ERIC (EBSCO) 41,192 30
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 19,545 –
MLA International Bibliography 782 –
Science Direct – 347,658
Sociological Abstracts 2,934 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2016
Database Searches Downloads
AnthroSource – 914
APA PsycArticles 1,236 10,906
APA PsycInfo 96,818 43
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 24,498 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 213,990 114,142
ERIC (EBSCO) 51,126 63
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 24,691 –
MLA International Bibliography 27,920 –
Science Direct – 375,169
Sociological Abstracts 25,361 –

Usage of Linguistics Databases: 2015
Database Searches Downloads
APA PsycArticles 1,937 14,651
APA PsycInfo 124,793 26
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 24,211 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 240,155 109,939
ERIC (EBSCO) 64,662 –
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts 25,905 –
MLA International Bibliography 29,966 –
Science Direct – 303,851
Sociological Abstracts 21876 –

Top 10 Journals

The lists of Top 10 journals by subject were extracted from Journal Citation Reports database. The Libraries own or have access to all titles linked below.
View definitions of Journal Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score.

Top 10 Journals
Journal Name ISSN Total Citations 2021 Journal Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Article Influence Score
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics N/A 2,530 9.194 0.004 N/A
Computational Linguistics 0891-2017 2,694 7.778 0.002 2.125
Modern Language Journal 0026-7902 5,951 7.5 0.006 2.838
Computer Assisted Language Learning 0958-8221 3,111 5.964 0.003 1.199
Journal of Second Language Writing 1060-3743 3,142 5.448 0.002 2.114
Language Learning 0023-8333 6,002 5.24 0.004 1.971
Language Teaching 0261-4448 2,266 4.769 0.003 2.191
Bilingualism - Language & Cognition 1366-7289 4,829 4.763 0.005 1.412
Studies in Second Language Acquisition 0272-2631 3,772 4.73 0.003 1.974
Language Learning & Technology 1094-3501 2,069 4.694 0.002 1.423

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