General description

The International Journal of English Studies (IJES) is a double-blind peer review journal which seeks to reflect the newest research in the general field of English Studies: English Language and Linguistics, Applied English Linguistics, Literature in English and Cultural studies of English-speaking countries. We will give preference to keeping the balance amongst the areas and subareas belonging to English Studies whenever possible. It is published twice a year, in June and December.

IJES is an open-access journal which grants free and total access to its content working under the Creative Commons Licence 4.0. (electronic version).  It is indexed in SCOPUS, DICE, MLA, ERIH PLUS, SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Emerging Sources Citation Index and has recently been become part of the Journal Citation Report (JCR) database, among other. It ranks sixth within the first quartile of the Spanish Journals in the area of Linguistics.

Publication frequency

The journal is published twice yearly, in June and December.

Impact

IJES is indexed in:

Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, DIALNET, DOAJ, EBSCO Education Source, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database

Bibliometric indicators

Database

Impact Factor/ indicators (2022)

JCR                               
                                                   

SCImago Journal Rank                 H-INDEX 0.34

                                                       Q1 (Literature & Literary Theory )                                                                                                                                       Q1 (Cultural Studies)
                                                       Q1 (Linguistics & Language)

                                                       Q3 (Education 

SCOPUS                                        Cited Documents (2022) 21

                                                                                                     

FECYT (Seal of Quality of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology)                                          Quality Seal  renewed for 2022

CARHUS Plus+2018

LATINDEX. Catálogo v2.0 (2018-)                    Criteria: 30/38

ERIHPlus

MIAR                                                                      ICDS: 9.8

REDIB. Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y conocimiento científico

 

Plagiarism statement

IJES uses the plagiarism-detection software iThenticate by Turnitin®. Upon submitting an article to be considered for publication in IJES, authors certify that the article was written by them and in their own words, except for quotations from published and unpublished sources, which are clearly acknowledged as such.

Funding / Financiación

If the author(s) received financial support for the research, authorship, and /or publication of this article, it should be stated at the end of the article.

Gender equality policy / Política de igualdad de género

IJES is committed to gender balance, as can be seen in the composition of its editorial team, board of advisors and board of referees.

• Inclusive Language Policy: Authors are required to use inclusive language that avoids any biases or expressions that discriminate against groups of people based on race, gender or socioeconomic status. They are expected to avoid using language that demeans any sex.

• Gender and Sex in Research: Research studies should avoid stereotypes and gender biases that adopt the male gender as a universal reference or naturalize socially constructed discriminatory differences. At the same time, the manuscript must state whether the original data take sex or gender into account in such a way that possible differences among genders can be identified.

Interoperability protocol

The journal provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows its contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.

Specifications:
● OAI-PMH Protocol Versión 2.0
● Dublin Core Metadata

Harvester path:: https://revistas.um.es/iqual/oai

Digital preservation policies

All journals published by the University of Murcia are hosted in the institutional repository DIGITUM (digitum.um.es). Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit their works published in IJES in other repositories, as this favours their circulation, dissemination and preservation.

As regards its digital preservation policies, The University of Murcia, which publishes and sponsors this publication, warrants the intellectual content of the electronic documents archived in the journal servers for long periods of time, preserving their integrity, authenticity, originality, reliability and accessibility.

Open Access Policy

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