System (journal)

System

Discipline	Applied linguistics, education
Language	English
Edited by	Idoia Elola, Mairin Hennebry-Leung, Jim McKinley, Yongyan Zheng
Publication details
History	1973-present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	4.9 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	System
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ISSN	0346-251X
LCCN	81643610
OCLC no.	833467391
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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.^[1] 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, with article number identifiers in place of page numbers.

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".^[2]

As of January 2025, the editors-in-chief, in alphabetical order, are Idoia Elola (Texas Tech University), Mairin Hennebry-Leung (The University of Melbourne), Jim McKinley (UCL Institute of Education, University of London), and Yongyan Zheng (Fudan University).^[3]

• Lluïsa Astruc, The Open University
• James A. Coleman, The Open University
• Norman Davies (founding editor 1973-2010), Linköping University
• Xuesong (Andy) Gao, The University of New South Wales
• Marta González-Lloret, The University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Regine Hampel, The Open University
• Sarah Mercer, University of Graz
• Ursula Stickler, The Open University
• Lawrence Jun Zhang, The University of Auckland

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