September 2013 – Saul Albert

Journals that publish Conversation Analysis

September 19, 2013

A list of journals that repeatedly publish basic CA work rather than CA work that primarily applies CA to a domain-specific area of interest.

Many of the people who are doing interesting CA work today have published in one or more of these. Have I missed any important ones out? This list notably excludes work in medical sociology, classroom interaction and other disciplines in which CA is frequently applied.

Research on Language and Social Interaction http://rolsi.lboro.ac.uk/
Journal of Pragmatics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics/
Language in Society http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=lsy
Text and Talk http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text
Semiotica http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi
Discourse Studies http://dis.sagepub.com/
Social Psychology Quarterly http://spq.sagepub.com/
Discourse Processes http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hdsp20
Journal of Communication http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-2466
American Journal of Sociology http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/ajs.html
Qualitative Research http://qrj.sagepub.com/
Language and Communication http://www.journals.elsevier.com/language-and-communication/
Communication Monographs, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcmm20/current#.Ujp9uyKJAuE
Issues in Applied Linguistics http://ial.humanities.ucla.edu/Home.html
Human Communication Research http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2958
Sociology http://jos.sagepub.com/
American Sociological Review http://asr.sagepub.com/

And a much-too-small list of journals that look interesting for various reasons but have published less CA.

PLoS One. http://www.plosone.org/
PNAS http://www.pnas.org/
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/
Brain and Language http://www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-and-language/
British Journal of Social Psychology http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2044-8309
Qualitative research in Psychology http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uqrp20/current#.Ujp9PyKJAuE
Pragmatics and Society http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ps/main

Update: here they are, listed by (possibly useless) impact factor ratings. Interesting though.

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
PNAS	5.32	5.328	5.374	5.417	5.309	5.329	5.473
American Sociological Review	3.842	3.966	4.643	4.395	4.302	4.288	4.941
American Journal of Sociology	3.884	4.043	3.675	4.482	3.906	4.144	3.935
Research on Language and Social Interaction	1.079	1.51	0.827	0.515	2.566	2.092	2.023
Brain and Language	0.762	0.904	0.917	1.19	1.436	1.555	1.838
Human Communication Research	0.796	1.037	1.285	2.16	1.848	1.855	1.748
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	0.434	1.454	0.884	0.283	1.089	0.995	1.591
Communication Monographs	0.655	1.149	0.971	0.951	1.087	0.75	1.543
PLoS One	0	1.016	1.691	1.896	2.001	1.762	1.512
Sociology	0.912	1.492	1.751	1.145	1.498	1.113	1.458
Social Psychology Quarterly	1.003	1.264	0.872	0.807	0.821	1.047	1.289
Journal of Communication	0.91	0.964	1.009	1.015	0.877	0.864	1.281
Qualitative Research	0.122	0.563	0.709	0.886	0.893	0.954	1.174
British Journal of Social Psychology	1.223	1.081	1.046	1.047	1.073	1.362	1.127
Language in Society	0.566	0.818	0.67	1.134	0.991	1.198	0.904
Discourse Studies	0.34	0.847	0.958	1.145	0.722	0.923	0.65
Discourse Processes	0.49	0.639	0.89	0.413	0.518	0.676	0.642
Journal of Pragmatics	0.348	0.371	0.687	0.542	0.574	0.676	0.638
Text and Talk	0.42	0.345	0.286	0.446	0.345	0.601	0.433
Language and Communication	0.445	0.351	0.754	0.441	0.778	0.565	0.425
Semiotica	0.242	0.26	0.255	0.225	0.215	0.231	0.205
Qualitative Research in Psychology	0	0.138	0.826	0.981	0.201	0.316	0.205

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