ESP Today-Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level
Leading citation impact metric from Clarivate Journal Citation Reports
16 papers with at least that number of citations each
State Council for Professorship (HĐGSNN) Scoring
Quyết định số 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN ngày 11/7/2025 (Mục quốc tế)
HĐGSNN Score History
By article publication year| Year | Max Score | Evaluation Details | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.00đ | WoS Q1(IF: 2.4) | 🔵 Computed |
| 2025 | 2.00đ | WoS Q1(IF: 2.2) | 🔵 Computed |
| 2024 | 2.00đ | WoS Q1(IF: 0.9) | 🔵 Computed |
| 2023 | 2.00đ | WoS Q1(IF: 0.7) | 🔵 Computed |
Note: Domestic journal scores are officially collected from annual HĐGSNN decisions across councils. International journal scores are dynamically computed according to Decision 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN based on quartile and citation metrics in the publication year.
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 ESP Today comes out biannually (in June and in December) and welcomes submissions of previously unpublished research papers on a variety of topics taking a broadly defined tertiary-level ESP perspective on: needs analysis, teaching material preparation, curriculum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.
SCImago & Scopus Journal Intelligence
Global SCImago ranking, SJR prestige index, Scopus coverage, and societal policy impact
Weighted prestige citation metric per document indexed in the Scopus database.
Measures cumulative publication volume and citation impact.
Average citations received per document published in the 2-year window.
Diamond Open Access: Authors publish completely free of charge with zero author-facing fees.
Scopus 3-Year Publication & Citation Window
Aggregated from Scopus database across the 3-year SJR evaluation window.
Societal Impact & Inclusivity (SCImago)
Citations in government and international policy documents
Percentage of female authors published in the journal
Real-world societal policy reach and author gender diversity tracked by SCImago.
Scopus Subject Categories
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Classification
Major / minor zone classification and CAS Early Warning List history
Publishing & Editorial Information
Detailed publisher, peer-review turnaround, and publication cycle specifications
WoS Categories & Quartiles
Detailed JCR / JCI category rankings and quartile breakdown from Clarivate
| Category | Index | Rank | Quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
LINGUISTICS | JCRESCI | 58/312 | Q1 |
LINGUISTICS | JCIESCI | 76/312 | Q1 |
Annual Historical Statistics & Publications
Track annual publication volume, total citations, and Impact Factor evolution
| Year | Impact Factor | Articles / Year | Total Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | — | 9 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2.2 | 18 | 9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 17 | 20 |
| 2023 | 0.7 | 26 | 126 |
| 2022 | — | 6 | 102 |
| 2021 | — | 23 | 147 |
| 2020 | — | 13 | 97 |
| 2019 | — | 12 | 108 |
| 2018 | — | 11 | 155 |
| 2017 | — | 19 | 234 |
| 2016 | — | 12 | 48 |
| 2015 | — | 2 | 15 |
Journal Metrics & Citation Visualizations
Impact Factor Trend (2018–2024)
Clarivate IF trend for ESP Today-Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level
Total Cites vs Self-Cites
Evaluation of scholarly independence and citation reach
Citations per Document
Citation metric windows across 2, 3, and 4 years
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