Lingua (journal)

In October 2015 the editors and editorial board resigned en masse to protest their inability to come to an agreement with Elsevier regarding fair pricing models for open access publishing. They subsequently started a new journal, Glossa since Elsevier refused to relinquish the rights on the name Lingua.{{cite journal |last1=Jaschik |first1=Scott |title=Language of Protest |journal=Inside Higher Ed |date=2015-11-02 |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees}}{{Cite web|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22162|title=Language Log » Lingua is dead. Long live Glossa!}}

Elsevier has continued Lingua under new leadership. Within the linguistics community, some consider Glossa as having inherited the reputation of the earlier journal. Elsevier's continuation is referred to (by some linguists) as Zombie Lingua and is regarded as a new journal.{{cite journal |last1=Moody |first1=Glyn |title=Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access |journal=Ars Technica |date=2015-11-03 |url=https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/entire-editorial-staff-of-elsevier-journal-lingua-resigns-over-high-price-lack-of-open-access/}}{{cite journal |last1=Fister |first1=Barbara |title=Whose Journal is This, Anyway? |journal=Inside Higher Ed |date=2015-11-12 |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/whose-journal-anyway}}{{citation|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34106 |title=More Zombie Lingua shenanigans |publisher=Language Log |first=Eric |last=Baković |authorlink=Eric Baković |date=August 17, 2017}} Following a statement from their linguistics faculties, the University of California Libraries requested that Elsevier cancel their subscription to post-2015 volumes of Lingua.{{citation|url=https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2016/02/uc-lingustics-faculty-support-glossa/ |title=UC linguistics faculty pledge support for Glossa, call for cancellation of Lingua |publisher=University of California Office of Scholarly Communication|date=2016-02-16}} In a joint post on Language Log in 2016, Eric Baković and Kai von Fintel noted lower quality standards at the new Lingua which included a paper withdrawn due to plagiarism.{{citation|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=28545 |title=Asleep at the wheel at Zombie Lingua? |publisher=Language Log |first1=Eric |last1=Baković |authorlink=Eric Baković|first2=Kai|last2=von Fintel |date=September 30, 2016}}

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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• Arts and Humanities Citation Index{{cite web |url=http://mjl.clarivate.com/ |title=Web of Science Master Journal List |publisher=Clarivate |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2023-02-16}}
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
• EBSCO databases{{cite MIAR |title=Lingua |issn=0024-3841 |access-date=2023-02-16}}
• FRANCIS
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• L'Année philologique
• Linguistic Bibliography
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
• Modern Language Association Database
• Scopus{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/23735 |title=Source details: Lingua |publisher=Elsevier |work=Scopus Preview |access-date=2023-02-16}}
• Social Sciences Citation Index

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.1.{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Lingua |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Social Sciences |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

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Category:Linguistics journals

Category:Elsevier academic journals

Category:Academic journals established in 1949

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Category:Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year

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