The International Journal of Bilingualism is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 that publishes papers in the field of linguistics

Linguistics

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. The journal's editor is Li Wei

Li Wei (linguist)

Lǐ Wéi （李嵬） is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is a linguist with a particular interest in bilingualism and multilingualism. He was born in Beijing, China, of Manchu-Chinese parents and was initially trained as an English language teacher at the...

 (Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

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). It has been in publication since 1997 and is currently published by SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

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.

Scope

IJB is an international forum for the dissemination of original research on the linguistic, psychological, neurological, and social issues

Social issues

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 which emerge from language contact, with a focus on the language behavior of bilingual and multilingual individuals.

Abstracting and indexing

Journal title is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents

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, SCOPUS

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

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is 0.862, ranking it 52nd out of 141 journals in the category ‘Linguistics’.