Technology and Language

About Technology and Language

Technology and Language — A Full Profile

Technology and Language is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, which is both its founder and its publisher. It carries the single ISSN recorded on this Journals World post, 2712-9934, printed in the header of its own journal site, and it has been published since 2020, four times a year. Its subject is announced by its title and defined by its own aims statement: the many relations of technology and language, studied from the point of view of history, linguistics, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and literary and media studies. It charges authors nothing, is paid for by its university, licences its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence, reviews submissions in a single-blind process, and states on its own site that it is indexed by Scopus. For scholars of language, technology, engineering culture and the philosophy and history that surround them, it is a young, clearly defined interdisciplinary platform, and this profile records what the journal and its publisher verifiably say about it.

At a Glance

• Full title: Technology and Language
• ISSN: 2712-9934
• Founder and publisher: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
• Publishing since: 2020, as stated on the journal site
• Frequency: four times a year, as stated by the publisher
• Volume in 2026: volume 7, issue 3, the twenty-fourth issue overall, as shown on the journal home page
• Charges: publication is free for all authors, and reading is free; all publishing expenses are covered by the university, as stated by the journal
• Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0, as stated by the journal
• Review: compulsory single-blind review by independent reviewers, as stated by the journal; usually two reviewers per article, per its review page
• Registration: registered with the Russian media regulator with certificate EL No. FS 77-77604 dated 31 December 2019, as stated by the journal
• Indexing statement: the journal states that it is indexed by Scopus
• DOAJ and OpenAlex: no DOAJ record was returned for its ISSN, and no OpenAlex source record was returned by the OpenAlex ISSN endpoint, in the checks made for this profile

History and Publishing Home

This is a young journal with a documented beginning. Its site carries the line “Since 2020” under its title, it was registered with the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications — the Russian regulator usually shortened to Roskomnadzor — on 31 December 2019, immediately before its first year of publication, and its issue numbering matches that start exactly: by 2026 it was in volume 7, and the third issue of that volume was its twenty-fourth issue overall. Four issues a year across six completed years gives twenty-four issues at that point in the sequence, so the journal's own numbering, its registration date and its stated start year all agree. Directories that date journals by database coverage often miss young titles entirely, and this one is a case in point: the checks made for this profile returned no OpenAlex source for its ISSN, so the journal's existence and history rest, correctly, on its own record and its national registration.

The publishing home is a technical university, and that fact explains the journal's existence. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is one of Russia's leading engineering universities. A polytechnic that teaches engineers in a multilingual, text-saturated technical world has institutional reasons to host a journal about how language and technology shape each other: its students write, translate, document, programme and design, and its humanities teaching and research sit inside an engineering institution rather than outside it. The journal is one of the university's own periodicals, presented on the university's journal platform, with the university covering all publishing expenses. It is therefore a university journal in the full sense — founded by the institution, financed by it, and edited within its academic community — rather than a commercial title carrying a university name.

Its audience was international from the start. The journal site is presented in English and in Russian, its aims statement is written in English, and its subject — how technologies make and are made by language — is one in which Russian, European and wider scholarship meet. Articles examine material from many cultures and periods, and the journal presents itself explicitly as a platform for an interdisciplinary community of researchers and their philosophical, cultural and historical explorations.

Scope: What the Journal Publishes

The aims and scope statement is unusually well written, and this profile follows it closely rather than paraphrasing it into a list of keywords. The manifold relations of technology and language are its subject, approached from history, linguistics, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and literary and media studies. In the field of philosophy and cultural studies of technology and engineering, the journal promotes research and reflection on those relations. They include, in the journal's own examples, the grammar of things, design principles, and the rules of composition for creating technological systems or devices.

The statement then widens the idea in a way that defines the journal's distinctive territory. Like literature and art, technology and engineering express ideas of human nature and the good life. Language and technology intersect when cooking and building, writing and playing follow instructions or execute programmes, and when games, narratives or amusement parks are propelled by dramaturgical machinery. Technologies simultaneously make up and help people navigate a multilingual world, through techniques and technologies that support language acquisition. The production of written text, and the subjects of science fiction, bring new and old technologies into play. On this wide range of issues, the journal says, epistemological and ethical analysis complements empirical investigations from history and contemporary culture, and from educational and engineering practice.

Read as practical guidance, that statement welcomes work of several kinds: linguistic study of technical, scientific and instructional texts; history of technology written with attention to its vocabularies, manuals and records; philosophy of technology and of engineering; cultural and media study of machines, games, narratives and designed experiences; study of translation, terminology and multilingual communication in technical settings; study of language teaching and learning supported by technology; and literary study, including science fiction, where texts imagine or record technologies. One of the articles highlighted on the journal home page at the time of this profile, on machine learning for learning machines, sits exactly on that last border between language, education and computation. What falls outside the scope is work in which language is absent: a purely technical engineering paper with no reflection on text, term, instruction, narrative or communication does not become eligible because its subject is a machine, and a purely literary paper with no technological dimension does not become eligible because it mentions one.

What a Typical Issue Contains

The journal appears four times a year, and its issues are numbered both within the volume and continuously across its life: the home page presentation of volume 7, issue 3 as issue 24 is a small but useful piece of evidence about how steadily the schedule has been kept since 2020. A quarterly of this kind carries a set of full articles in each number rather than news or professional material, and its platform presents, for each article, title, keywords, abstract, contents and structure, references and formatting information, because the same platform guides authors through submission.

The journal is published in a digital environment with a version for visually impaired readers offered on its site, which is a practical detail that fits its subject: a journal about language and technology practising accessible presentation. Its articles are written for readers across disciplines, so the typical paper explains its home field's terms as it goes — a linguistics paper that an engineer can follow, a history paper that a linguist can assess. Authors should write with that mixed reader in mind from the first paragraph, because the journal's community is defined by a shared subject rather than by a shared training.

Editorial Model and Peer Review

The journal's review arrangements are set out on its own pages in more detail than most journals provide, and they are reported here as the journal states them. All articles are subject to compulsory single-blind review by independent reviewers who are experts on the subject of the material. Single-blind, as the journal's review page explains, means that authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for reviewers to see, while authors do not learn who reviewed their manuscript, and reviewers do not know each other's identities.

The timetable is also published, and it is worth quoting carefully because it is the journal's own statement rather than a directory's guess. The initial internal review can take from three to eight weeks. If a manuscript is taken forward, the review process can take between four and six months, and the journal notes that reviewers work voluntarily, so the period depends on their availability and may take longer. Usually the editor appoints two scientific reviewers per article; if their opinions diverge, the editors may invite additional reviewers. On the basis of a review, the outcome is one of three: accept, send for revision, or reject. An author resubmitting a revised article should indicate how the reviewers' suggestions were integrated, including an explanation of any suggestion not taken up, using the discussion field on the article page, and the standard deadline for revisions is two weeks after receiving the comments, with authors asked to inform the editorial staff through the article page if they need more time.

This profile does not name the journal's individual editors. The editorial board is maintained on the journal site as a living page, and a directory profile that copies names from such a page tends to keep them in circulation long after they change; authors should read the current board page on the journal site itself. The structural points — a university editorial office, an electronic submission system through which review and discussion take place, and published ethics and artificial intelligence policies in its journal information menu — are the durable facts, and they are the ones an author needs before submitting.

Access, Charges and Licensing

The journal's own statement on money and access is complete, and it is one of the strongest features of the title. Publication in the journal is open and free for all authors regardless of their affiliations. For readers, all content is freely readable without charge: readers may view, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts, or use them for any other lawful purpose, within the licence. All publishing expenses are covered by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. There is no embargo period. Articles are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence, and authors sign a licence agreement with the publisher in addition.

Two practical consequences follow. First, no article processing charge figure appears in this profile, because there is no charge to report: the “cost” question that authors must ask of many open-access journals is answered by the journal itself, in advance, as none. Second, the NonCommercial element of the licence matters for reuse: text and figures may be shared and adapted with attribution for non-commercial purposes, while commercial reuse falls outside the licence as granted and needs separate permission. Preservation is addressed on the journal site as well: the journal describes a digital preservation policy under which full texts and metadata are transferred to the Russian Scientific Electronic Library, to CyberLeninka, to the Russian State Library, to the university and state library in Darmstadt, and to the electronic library of its own university, with backup arrangements in the latter. For a journal founded in 2020, that is a considered answer to the question of what happens to its archive in thirty years.

Metrics and Indexing, Read Carefully

Here this profile reports two verified statements and one honest gap. The first statement is the journal's own: it states, on its site, that Technology and Language is indexed by Scopus. Authors whose institutions count Scopus indexing should confirm that statement in the Scopus source list itself, as they should for any journal, but the claim originates with the journal and its publisher, and it is reported as such. The second statement is about reach rather than metrics: the journal's preservation and deposit arrangements place its full texts in the main Russian scholarly libraries and in a major German university library, which is discoverability of a durable kind.

The gap is metrics. The OpenAlex ISSN endpoint returned no source for ISSN 2712-9934 in the checks made for this profile, and the Directory of Open Access Journals returned no record for it either, so this profile publishes no works count, no citation count and no database h-index for this journal. The Journals World template that this profile replaces quoted an h-index of 9 for the title. That figure is not reproduced here as a fact, because no source for it was verified in the checks made; it may have come from a service whose coverage was not re-checked, and presenting it without its source would be exactly the kind of unlabelled metric this series of profiles exists to replace. Readers who need a metric for an institutional purpose should take it from a named database that covers the journal, and cite that database — for a young interdisciplinary journal, citation counts in the large general databases will in any case lag behind its real readership in the Russian and European scholarly systems where it circulates.

Who Should Consider This Journal

The journal suits scholars whose work genuinely joins language and technology: linguists working on technical discourse, terminology, translation or instruction; historians and philosophers of technology who take texts, designs and rules seriously as evidence; cultural and media scholars working on games, narratives, designed experiences and machine culture; researchers in language education where technology is part of the question; and literary scholars working on science fiction and on the writing of technical worlds. Its quarterly schedule, its published review timetable of some months, and its absence of charges make it a realistic venue for younger scholars and for authors outside well-funded systems, who are explicitly welcomed — the journal states that publication is free for all authors regardless of affiliation.

It is a poor fit for work that needs the audience of a single established discipline, for engineering results with no linguistic or cultural argument, and for manuscripts that cannot be read outside one national tradition of scholarship without explanation. Because review is single-blind and usually by two specialists, a manuscript should also be able to withstand reading by an expert in whichever of its two halves — the language half or the technology half — is the reviewer's own.

Preparing a Submission

Begin on the journal site, where a guide for authors covers manuscript formatting, article title, keywords, abstract, contents and structure, references, formatting guidelines and the submission process, together with separate pages on publication ethics and on its policy concerning artificial intelligence. Follow that guide literally: this journal handles submission, review discussion and revision through its electronic system and its article pages, and a manuscript prepared in the platform's expected shape moves through it with less friction.

Build in the journal's own timetable from the start. Allow three to eight weeks for internal review and, if the paper is sent out, four to six months or more for review, and note the standard two-week window for turning a revision around: an author who will be travelling or teaching intensively when comments arrive should tell the editorial staff through the article page, as the journal itself instructs, rather than letting the deadline pass silently. In the paper itself, state the joining argument — how language and technology shape each other in your material — in the abstract and in the opening pages, give references in the journal's format, and explain specialist terms for the interdisciplinary reader. Nothing in the journal's model rewards a manuscript that only one discipline can read.

Similar Journals and How This One Differs

Journals with overlapping interests exist in several fields: journals of language and technology in education, which concentrate on language learning with computers and mobile devices; journals of technical communication; journals of the philosophy and history of technology; and translation studies journals with a technology strand. Technology and Language differs from each of them by design. Against the language-learning titles, it is not centred on classrooms or acquisition, though such work appears where it meets its wider question. Against technical communication journals, it is not a professional practice journal: its interest in instructions and manuals is scholarly, historical and philosophical as much as practical. Against philosophy of technology journals, it keeps language — grammar, text, term, narrative — at the centre, where those journals often treat it as one topic among many.

Identity should be checked by ISSN, as always. There is a well-known journal in language education whose title reverses this one's two nouns; it is a different journal, from a different publisher and country, with different ISSNs, and it is not the journal profiled here. This record is Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's journal, ISSN 2712-9934, published from St. Petersburg since 2020.

Reading This Record Correctly

The Journals World record for this post stored a single ISSN, 2712-9934, named the Russian Federation as the country, and presented the publisher as a bare number and the field as a quartile label. The journal site resolves each of those points: the publisher and founder is Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the journal has appeared since 2020 four times a year, and its field is the interdisciplinary study of technology and language as its own aims statement defines it. The template's coverage span ending in 2025 is superseded by the journal's own current presentation of volume 7 in 2026. Where a register consulted for this profile held nothing — OpenAlex and the Directory of Open Access Journals both returned no record for the ISSN — this profile says so plainly, rather than borrowing numbers from a source that could not be checked.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of Technology and Language? ISSN 2712-9934, printed on the journal's own site and the identifier stored on this record.

Who publishes it? Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, which is both founder and publisher and covers all publishing expenses.

When did it begin and how often does it appear? Since 2020, four times a year; in 2026 it reached volume 7, whose third issue was its twenty-fourth overall.

Does it charge authors or readers? No. The journal states that publication is free for all authors regardless of affiliation, that all content is freely readable, and that there is no embargo period.

Under what licence are articles published? CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International, with authors signing a licence agreement with the publisher.

How is it reviewed? By compulsory single-blind review, usually with two reviewers per article. The journal states that internal review can take three to eight weeks and that full review can take four to six months or longer.

Is it indexed? The journal states that it is indexed by Scopus. No record was returned by the Directory of Open Access Journals, and no source record was returned by OpenAlex, in the checks made for this profile, so no database metrics are quoted here.