System (journal)
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | System |
| cover | System_journal_cover_2019.jpg |
| editors | Mairin Hennebry-Leung, Chun Lai, Jim McKinley, Yongyan Zheng |
| discipline | Applied linguistics, education |
| abbreviation | System |
| publisher | Elsevier |
| frequency | 8/year |
| history | 1973-present |
| openaccess | Hybrid |
| impact | 4.9 |
| impact-year | 2023 |
| website | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/system/ |
| link2 | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/system/issues |
| link2-name | Online archive |
| OCLC | 833467391 |
| LCCN | 81643610 |
| ISSN | 0346-251X |
| :: |
| title = System | cover = System_journal_cover_2019.jpg | editors = Mairin Hennebry-Leung, Chun Lai, Jim McKinley, Yongyan Zheng | discipline = Applied linguistics, education | former_names = | abbreviation = System | publisher = Elsevier | country = | frequency = 8/year | history = 1973-present | openaccess = Hybrid | license = | impact = 4.9 | impact-year = 2023 | website = https://www.journals.elsevier.com/system/ | link1 = | link1-name = | link2 = https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/system/issues | link2-name = Online archive | JSTOR = | OCLC = 833467391 | LCCN = 81643610 | CODEN = | ISSN = 0346-251X | eISSN = System is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems of foreign language teaching and learning. It was established in 1973 and has been published by Elsevier since 1991. Until 2013, the journal published four issues per year. In 2014, it published six issues, and since 2015 it has published eight issues per year. Since October 2019 (volume 85), articles have been published electronically only.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- EBSCO databases
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
- Modern Language Association Database
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Citation Index According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2023 impact factor of 4.9, ranking it 3rd out of 297 journals in the category "Linguistics" and 15th out of 756 journals in the category "Education & Educational Research".
Editors
, the editors-in-chief are Mairin Hennebry-Leung (University of Melbourne), Chun Lai (University of Hong Kong), Jim McKinley (University College London), and Yongyan Zheng (Fudan University).
Former editors
- Lluïsa Astruc, Open University
- James A. Coleman, Open University
- Norman Davies (founding editor 1973-2010), Linköping University
- Idoia Elola Texas Tech University
- Xuesong (Andy) Gao University of New South Wales
- Marta González-Lloret, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Regine Hampel, Open University
- Ursula Stickler, Open University
- Robert Vanderplank, University of Oxford
- Liang Wang, Queen's University Belfast
- Lawrence Jun Zhang, University of Auckland
References
References
- (April 2024). "Fifty years of System research and projections for the future". System.
- "System".
- "Source details: System". [[Elsevier]].
- "Web of Science Master Journal List". [[Clarivate]].
- (2024). "2023 Journal Citation Reports". [[Clarivate]].
- "System journal". Elsevier.
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