Impact Factor
3.63
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
3.90
650 total citations
h5-index
29
h5 depth signal
Cited share
84.5%
147 of 174
Total citations
650
Citation footprint
Metric signal
2.93
External metric anchor
Self-citation
9.1%
59 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
628
Australia
66
Canada
33
United Kingdom
30
China
18
Citing Fields of Research
Linguistics & Language Studies
624
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
162
Education & Pedagogy
147
Psychiatry & Psychology
100
Auditory Loss
95
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
2,580
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
174
147 cited publications
Last 12 months
125
17.9 publications/month
Open access share
2.4%
3 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
628 citing publications
Leading citing field
Linguistics & Language Studies
624 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
19 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v35n1, Jan. 2004-
v35n1, Jan. 2004-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Linguistics & Language Studies
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
American Speech and Hearing Association
Broad Categories
Audiology
Health Services
Speech-Language Pathology
Linguistics & Language Studies
MeSH Descriptors
Child
Education, Special
Hearing Disorders
Infant
School Health Services
Speech Disorders
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-26-00026
Open DOI
Literary Element Use in Written Narratives for Third-Grade Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Purpose: This study examined literary element use in third-grade written narratives to determine if children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and their peers with typical hearing (TH) met macrostructure writing proficiency expectat...
02
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00267
Open DOI
Listening Effort in Preschool Children With Hearing Loss: A Multidimensional Investigation
Purpose: Listening effort may impact listeners' performance; however, existing methods for measuring this effort have not been thoroughly applied to preschool children. This study investigated the multidimensional nature of listening eff...
03
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-26-00115
Open DOI
Beyond Stuttering: Speech-Language Pathologists' Perceptions of Therapy for Children Who Stutter With Concomitant Speech and Language Needs
Purpose: Stuttering therapy is complex, addressing speech, cognitive, affective, and social factors. Children who stutter often present with co-occurring speech and language disorders. Historically, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) ha...
04
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00135
Open DOI
The Effectiveness of a School-Based Book Reading Intervention for Dai–Mandarin Young Bilingual Children in China: A Pilot Study
Purpose: Bilingual children from ethnic minority backgrounds in China often face challenges acquiring Mandarin Chinese as their second language (L2). This study aimed to (a) evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based book reading inter...
05
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00256
Open DOI
Novel Approaches to Language Assessment Part 2: Evaluating Measures of Effort in a Sentence Recall Task for School-Age Children
Purpose: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) produce more speech disruptions and have a slower speech rate than their peers. This study validated measures of effortful sentence production by examining their association wi...
06
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00268
Open DOI
Novel Approaches to Language Assessment Part 1: Artificial Intelligence–Automated Scoring of a Sentence Recall Task for School-Age Children
Purpose: Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to enhance the delivery of speech-language pathology services. One area of practice that could benefit from AI is automated screenings for developmental language disor...
07
08
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-26-00166
Open DOI
Introduction to the Forum: Global Assessment of Narratives
Purpose: This article introduces the Forum: Global Assessment of Narratives, which brings together contributions highlighting two freely accessible narrative assessment tools developed for international and cross-linguistic use: Global T...
09
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00179
Open DOI
Heritage Speakers Telling Fictional Stories in Two Languages: Cross-Linguistic Differences in Macrostructure
Purpose: The article aimed to examine cross-linguistic differences in macrostructure abilities in the narratives of 5- to 6-year-old preschool children from diverse heritage language (HL) backgrounds who speak Hebrew as the societal lang...
10
DOI 10.1044/2026_lshss-25-00147
Open DOI
Children's Oral Narrative Skills Through the Lens of Internal State Terms: A Large-Scale Study of Fictional Stories Elicited With the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Purpose: This article investigates the development of oral narrative skills in children through the lens of internal states in a large cross-linguistic data set of comparable fictional stories. Method: In a joint effort of research group...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Called also Journal of language, speech, and hearing services in schools and LS&HSS.
Also issued online.