The following is a list of the Indexing and Abstracting databases that cover the Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics:

| EBSCO
|Crossref
| MLA International Bibliography
| MIAR
| MLA Directory of Periodicals
| JournalTOCS
| Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
| Google Scholar
| ResearchGate
| SSRN - Elsevier
| CNKI Scholar
| ScienceGate
| J-Gate
| Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
| WorldCat (OCLC)
| Sherpa/Romeo
| Scilit
| CLOCKSS 
| Scite
| LOCKSS 
| Dimensions 
| Public Knowledge Project (PKP Index)
| EuroPub
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
| TIRF - USA
| Asos İndeks
| Neliti