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, with article number identifiers in place of page numbers.

Impact

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

As of July 2024, 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), Lawrence Jun Zhang (University of Auckland), and Yongyan Zheng (Fudan University).

Former editors