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About the Language and Health format

Language and Health is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, covering Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare.

PublisherElsevier
Reference styleNumbered (Elsevier)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Language and Health 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism Language Development and Disorders
ISSN2949-9038
Citation impact (2-yr)1.47
h-index7
i10-index6
Total citations197
Open accessYes
Top institutions publishing hereHong Kong Polytechnic University
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Papers published in Language and Health per year

19
2023
18
2024
21
2025

Citation impact of Language and Health by publication year

120
2023
54
2024
13
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Language and Health

Natural language processing-driven framework for the early detection of language and cognitive decline

Kulvinder Panesar, María Beatriz Pérez Cabello del Alba · 4 Oct 2023

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology has the potential to provide a non-invasive, cost-effective method using a timely intervention for detecting early-stage language and cognitive decline in individuals concerned about their memory. The proposed pre-screening language and cognition assessment model (PST-LCAM) is based on the functional linguistic model Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) to analyse and…

Communication disorders: A complex population in healthcare

Louise Cummings · 30 Jun 2023

This article provides readers with an overview of a population of clients that requires special consideration in healthcare settings: children and adults with communication disorders. In addition to standard barriers to effective communication between patients and doctors, people with communication disorders face a further challenge – communicating with medical and health professionals when their speech…

Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition

Louise Cummings · 1 Jun 2023

COVID-19 continues to have profound health and economic consequences around the world. Aside from the large number of deaths from this viral infection, there is a growing population of individuals who have not made a good recovery from their COVID illnesses. These children and adults continue to experience COVID symptoms for months and even years…

Linguistic markers of depression: Insights from english-language tweets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nurul Hayat Yahya, Hajar Abdul Rahim · 12 Oct 2023

Research shows that the COVID-19 outbreak negatively affected people’s mental health with depression cases being the most prevalently reported mental disorder around the world. This motivated studies on the symptoms of depression through social media such as Twitter, with most of them focusing on behavioural changes in depressive individuals. Linguistic changes in tweets of depressed…

A tale of three global cities: A comparative account of Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong’s multilingual repertoires evidenced in their Covidscapes as part of Covid-19 crisis and public health communication

Chonglong Gu · 25 Jun 2023

Living under the far-reaching ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic, effective communication has been the order of the day in recent years. The very nature of the pandemic strikes home the crucial need to communicate multilingually in our increasingly (super)diverse world, in which translation has a big part to play. Constituting a socially shaped and socially…

Language and Health template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Language and Health format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Language and Health template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Elsevier format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Language and Health use?
Language and Health uses Numbered (Elsevier) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Language and Health 12 (2023) 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Language and Health?
No. DocuGuru generates the elsarticle LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Elsevier-ready Language and Health document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Language and Health template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Language and Health format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
Who publishes Language and Health?
Language and Health is a multidisciplinary journal published by Elsevier. DocuGuru's Language and Health template matches Elsevier's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Language and Health PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Language and Health template (the elsarticle class) that is ready to submit to Elsevier, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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