The Fourth "ARCIF" Report 2019, published by the E-Marefa Database on production and scientific content, revealed that Saudi Arabia topped the arts field, which includes 51 journals, with the Umm Al-Qura Journal for Language Sciences and Literature. It was classified in the first category of the literature specialty.

His Excellency Umm Al-Qura President, Prof. Abdullah Bafail, in his office today (Monday), honored the Editor-in-Chief of the University Journal for Language Sciences and Literature, Prof. Abdul-Rahman Arif, the General Supervisor of the Office of University Journals, Dr. Muhammad Al-Sufi, Director of the Office of University Journals, Mr. Abdullah Bakhdar, and Assistant Director of the Office of Scientific Journals, Mr. Omar Al-Sayyid, on the occasion of the journal achieving the first rank at the level of Arab educational institutions. The ranking is based on the results of the Arabic Citation and Impact Factor of Arab scientific journals (ARCIF). The celebration was attended by His Excellence Umm Al-Qura Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research, Prof. Abdul-Wahhab Al-Resini.

His Excellency the President of the University congratulated the team of the journal, headed by Prof. Abdul-Rahman Arif, on their qualitative success and their continuous endeavor in highlighting the role of scientific journals to enrich the university in cognitive and research fields.

It is worth mentioning that the "ARCIF" factor is a methodology based tool for measuring the relative impact of scientific journals and comparing them to other journals in their field of knowledge. It is extracted according to strict standard equations based on global standards.