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Best Literature and Literary Theory journals

1,182 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Literature and Literary Theory. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 294 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Translation Spaces (The Netherlands) 5.7 99th Q1 ESCI – No
2 Men and Masculinities 4.9 99th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Written Communication 4.6 99th Q1 SSCI B No
4 Poetics 4.6 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
5 ABAC Journal 4.4 99th Q1 – – No
6 Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 4.4 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
7 International Journal of Language Education 3.3 99th Q1 ESCI – No
8 Journal of Writing Research 3.2 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
9 Translation and Interpreting 3 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
10 Canadian Slavonic Papers 2.8 99th Q1 ESCI – No
11 Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2.8 99th Q1 ESCI – No
12 International Journal of TESOL Studies 2.7 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
13 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 98th Q1 – – No
14 Critical Review 2.4 98th Q1 SSCI – No
15 Revista Tradumatica 2.4 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 Studies in English Language and Education 2.4 98th Q1 – – Yes
17 Semiotica 2.3 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
18 Narrative Inquiry 2.2 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
19 East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2.2 98th Q1 – – Yes
20 eTropic 2.2 98th Q1 – – Yes
21 Journal of Language Teaching and Research 2.2 98th Q1 – – No
22 Children's Literature in Education 2.1 98th Q1 AHCI – No
23 Language and Literature 2.1 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
24 Translation and Interpreting Studies 2.1 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
25 Australian Feminist Law Journal 2 97th Q1 ESCI – No
26 English in Education 1.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
27 Journal of Roman Studies 1.9 97th Q1 AHCI – No
28 L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature 1.9 97th Q1 ESCI – No
29 South Atlantic Quarterly 1.9 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
30 Theory and Practice in Language Studies 1.9 97th Q1 – – No
31 Journal of Cultural Analytics 1.8 97th Q1 – – No
32 Latin American Research Review 1.7 97th Q1 SSCI – Yes
33 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature 1.6 97th Q1 ESCI – Yes
34 International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 1.6 97th Q1 – – No
35 Journal of African Cultural Studies 1.6 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
36 Sociolinguistica 1.6 97th Q1 ESCI – No
37 GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 1.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
38 OCNOS 1.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 Poetics Today 1.6 96th Q1 AHCI – No
40 Ikala 1.5 96th Q1 – – Yes
41 LLT Journal: Journal on Language and Language Teaching 1.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
42 Speculum 1.5 96th Q1 AHCI – No
43 World Journal of English Language 1.5 96th Q1 – – No
44 Asian Studies 1.4 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
45 International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 1.4 96th Q1 – – No
46 International Journal of Education and the Arts 1.4 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
47 Miqot: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman 1.4 96th Q1 – – No
48 Configurations 1.4 95th Q1 AHCI – No
49 American Literature 1.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
50 Anuario Lope de Vega 1.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
51 Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
52 Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 1.3 95th Q1 AHCI – Yes
53 Journal of Islamic Studies 1.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
54 Literator 1.3 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
55 Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 1.3 95th Q1 – – No
56 Narrative 1.3 95th Q1 AHCI – No
57 Palgrave Studies in Life Writing 1.3 95th Q1 – – No
58 Research Journal in Advanced Humanities 1.3 95th Q1 – – No
59 Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 1.3 95th Q1 – – No
60 Atlantic Studies : Global Currents 1.3 94th Q1 ESCI – No
61 Journal of Literary Semantics 1.3 94th Q1 AHCI – No
62 Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii 1.3 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
63 TAPA 1.3 94th Q1 – – No
64 Asian Ethnology 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI – No
65 Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures 1.2 94th Q1 ESCI – No
66 Journal of Germanic Linguistics 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
67 Keel ja Kirjandus 1.2 94th Q1 – – Yes
68 New Literary History 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI – No
69 Research in Drama Education 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
70 Studies in Somaesthetics 1.2 94th Q1 – – No
71 Language and Dialogue 1.2 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
72 Letonica 1.2 93rd Q1 – – No
73 American Journal of Philology 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
74 English Studies in Africa 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
75 Islamic Africa 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
76 Journal of Biblical Literature 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
77 Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 1.1 93rd Q1 – – No
78 Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting 1.1 93rd Q1 – – No
79 Persica Antiqua 1.1 93rd Q1 – – No
80 Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis 1.1 93rd Q1 – – No
81 Positions 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
82 Renaissance Quarterly 1.1 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
83 Journal of Mekong Societies 1.1 92nd Q1 – – No
84 Spanish in Context 1.1 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
85 Bandung: Journal of the Global South 1 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
86 Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 1 92nd Q1 – – No
87 Cambridge Classical Journal 1 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
88 Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal 1 92nd Q1 – – Yes
89 International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 1 92nd Q1 ESCI – No
90 Literature, Critique, and Empire Today 1 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
91 Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos 1 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
92 Revista Signos 1 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
93 Shakespeare Bulletin 1 92nd Q1 – – No
94 TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies 1 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
95 Theatre Research International 1 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
96 Acta Linguistica Academica 1 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
97 Comparative Literature 1 91st Q1 AHCI – No
98 Digital Philology: Journal of Medieval Cultures 1 91st Q1 – – No
99 Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 1 91st Q1 ESCI – No
100 Iranian Studies 1 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
101 Journal for the Study of Judaism 1 91st Q1 AHCI – No
102 Journal of Hellenic Studies 1 91st Q1 AHCI – No
103 Magazen 1 91st Q1 – – Yes
104 Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals 1 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
105 Narrative Culture 1 91st Q1 ESCI – No
106 New Voices in Translation Studies 1 91st Q1 – – No
107 College Composition and Communication 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
108 ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
109 Journal of Communication, Language and Culture 0.9 90th Q1 – – No
110 Life Writing 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
111 Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 0.9 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
112 NAN NU 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
113 Paralleles 0.9 90th Q1 – – Yes
114 PMLA 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
115 Shakespeare Quarterly 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
116 Slovo (Croatia) 0.9 90th Q1 – – No
117 Studies in American Humor 0.9 90th Q1 ESCI – No
118 Studies in Romanticism 0.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
119 Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature 0.9 89th Q1 – – Yes
120 Chaucer Review 0.9 89th Q1 AHCI – No
121 CounterText 0.9 89th Q1 ESCI – No
122 European Journal of Jewish Studies 0.9 89th Q1 AHCI – No
123 Feminist Formations 0.9 89th Q1 – – No
124 New Writing 0.9 89th Q1 ESCI – No
125 English Academy Review 0.8 89th Q1 ESCI – No
126 Historias Fingidas 0.8 89th Q1 – – Yes
127 Journal of Studies in the English Language 0.8 89th Q1 – – No
128 Jurnal Kajian Bali 0.8 89th Q1 – – Yes
129 Textual Practice 0.8 89th Q1 AHCI – No
130 Al-'Arabiyya 0.8 88th Q1 ESCI – No
131 Boundary 2 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
132 Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI – No
133 European Journal of English Studies 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
134 Irish Studies Review 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI – No
135 Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 0.8 88th Q1 ESCI – No
136 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 0.8 88th Q1 – – Yes
137 Journal of Postcolonial Writing 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI – No
138 Letras (Peru) 0.8 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
139 Rhetoric Review 0.8 88th Q1 AHCI – No
140 Slovo.ru: Baltic Accent 0.8 88th Q1 – – Yes
141 AJS Review 0.8 87th Q1 AHCI – No
142 Deleuze and Guattari Studies 0.8 87th Q1 AHCI – No
143 ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 0.8 87th Q1 – – Yes
144 Hikma 0.8 87th Q1 – – Yes
145 Renaissance Society of America 0.8 87th Q1 – – No
146 Studia Imagologica 0.8 87th Q1 – – No
147 Benjamins Translation Library 0.7 87th Q1 – – No
148 Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 0.7 87th Q1 AHCI – No
149 International Journal of English Studies 0.7 87th Q1 ESCI – No
150 Journal of the African Literature Association 0.7 87th Q1 – – No
151 Neohelicon 0.7 87th Q1 AHCI – No
152 Style 0.7 87th Q1 AHCI – No
153 Afghanistan 0.7 86th Q1 ESCI – No
154 Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 0.7 86th Q1 – – Yes
155 Green Letters 0.7 86th Q1 – – No
156 Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik 0.7 86th Q1 ESCI – No
157 Journal of Australian Studies 0.7 86th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
158 Journal of Semitic Studies 0.7 86th Q1 AHCI – No
159 Literatura y Linguistica 0.7 86th Q1 – – Yes
160 Signa 0.7 86th Q1 AHCI – No
161 Slavia Centralis 0.7 86th Q1 – – Yes
162 Studia Metrica et Poetica 0.7 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
163 Traditio 0.7 86th Q1 AHCI – No
164 Women 0.7 86th Q1 ESCI – No
165 a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 0.7 85th Q1 – – No
166 Arethusa 0.7 85th Q1 AHCI – No
167 Barnboken 0.7 85th Q1 – – Yes
168 Cultura, Lenguaje y Representacion 0.7 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
169 English Text Construction 0.7 85th Q1 ESCI – No
170 Fluminensia 0.7 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
171 Journal of Literary Multilingualism 0.7 85th Q1 – – No
172 Philip Roth Studies 0.7 85th Q1 – – No
173 Research in African Literatures 0.7 85th Q1 AHCI – No
174 Slavisticna Revija 0.7 85th Q1 – – Yes
175 Studies in East European Thought 0.7 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
176 Topics in Humor Research 0.7 85th Q1 – – No
177 Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
178 Ariel 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
179 CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – Yes
180 Die Welt des Islams 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
181 English Studies 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
182 Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
183 Journal of World Literature 0.7 84th Q1 ESCI – No
184 Russian Review 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
185 Text and Performance Quarterly 0.7 84th Q1 AHCI – No
186 Boletin de Filologia 0.6 84th Q1 – – Yes
187 Revue d'Histoire des Textes 0.6 84th Q1 – – No
188 Translation Matters 0.6 84th Q1 – – No
189 Cultural Critique 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
190 Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
191 Jurnal Gramatika 0.6 83rd Q1 – – No
192 Literature Compass 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
193 Methis 0.6 83rd Q1 – – Yes
194 Milton Quarterly 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
195 Neophilologus 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
196 New English Teacher 0.6 83rd Q1 – – No
197 Novum Testamentum 0.6 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
198 Pasavento 0.6 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
199 Suvannabhumi: Multidisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 0.6 83rd Q1 – – No
200 Adaptation 0.6 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
201 Arabica 0.6 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
202 Boletin de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua 0.6 82nd Q1 – – Yes
203 English Literary Renaissance 0.6 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
204 Estudios Romanicos 0.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
205 FORUM (The Netherlands) 0.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
206 International Research in Children's Literature 0.6 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
207 Modern Language Quarterly 0.6 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
208 Monumenta Serica 0.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
209 NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies 0.6 82nd Q1 – – Yes
210 Rusin 0.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
211 SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature 0.6 82nd Q1 – – No
212 Applied Theatre Research 0.6 81st Q1 ESCI – No
213 Bakhtiniana 0.6 81st Q1 – – Yes
214 Comparative Literature Studies 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
215 English Language Notes 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
216 European Journal of American Studies 0.6 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
217 Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 0.6 81st Q1 – – No
218 Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
219 Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 0.6 81st Q1 – – Yes
220 Ogigia 0.6 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
221 Orbis Litterarum 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
222 Small Axe 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
223 T'oung Pao 0.6 81st Q1 AHCI – No
224 Anthropology and Humanism 0.6 80th Q1 – – No
225 Arab Media and Society 0.6 80th Q1 – – Yes
226 Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture 0.6 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
227 Byzantinische Zeitschrift 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
228 Early China 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
229 Helios 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
230 Information, Medium, and Society 0.6 80th Q1 – – No
231 Journal of Victorian Culture 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
232 Mashriq and Mahjar 0.6 80th Q1 – – Yes
233 Parallax 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
234 Review of English Studies 0.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
235 South African Journal of African Languages 0.6 80th Q1 ESCI – No
236 Contemporary Women's Writing 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
237 En-Claves del Pensamiento 0.6 79th Q1 – – Yes
238 Journal of Popular Culture 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
239 Nordic Journal of African Studies 0.6 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
240 Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics 0.6 79th Q1 – – Yes
241 Renaissance Studies 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
242 Studia Islamica 0.6 79th Q1 – – No
243 Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI – Yes
244 Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde 0.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
245 Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives 0.6 79th Q1 – – No
246 Yearbook of Langland Studies 0.6 79th Q1 – – No
247 Italian Culture 0.5 79th Q1 ESCI – No
248 American Literary History 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
249 Ancient Near Eastern Studies 0.5 78th Q1 ESCI – No
250 Comedy Studies 0.5 78th Q1 – – No
251 International Journal of Korean History 0.5 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
252 JNT-Journal of Narrative Theory 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
253 Kemanusiaan 0.5 78th Q1 – – Yes
254 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
255 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
256 Revista de Literatura Medieval 0.5 78th Q1 – – Yes
257 Studies in the Fantastic 0.5 78th Q1 – – No
258 Victorian Studies 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
259 Zeitschrift fur Slawistik 0.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
260 Anuario de Estudios Filologicos 0.5 77th Q1 – – Yes
261 Diacritics 0.5 77th Q1 AHCI – No
262 Extrapolation 0.5 77th Q1 AHCI – No
263 Jezik in Slovstvo 0.5 77th Q1 – – Yes
264 Journal of Screenwriting 0.5 77th Q1 AHCI – No
265 Manuscripta Orientalia 0.5 77th Q1 – – No
266 Mark Twain Annual 0.5 77th Q1 ESCI – No
267 NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 0.5 77th Q1 – – Yes
268 Novel 0.5 77th Q1 AHCI – No
269 Respectus Philologicus 0.5 77th Q1 – – Yes
270 Revista de Filologia Espanola 0.5 77th Q1 AHCI – Yes
271 Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 0.5 77th Q1 – – No
272 Al-Qantara 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI – Yes
273 Anales de Literatura Espanola 0.5 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
274 Australian Literary Studies 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI – No
275 Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 0.5 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
276 Estudios Filologicos 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
277 Quaestio Rossica 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI – Yes
278 Slavic Literatures 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI – No
279 Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Yazyk i Literatura 0.5 76th Q1 ESCI – No
280 Victorian Literature and Culture 0.5 76th Q1 AHCI – No
281 Anuario Calderoniano 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI – No
282 Comparative Literature: East and West 0.5 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
283 Criticism 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI – No
284 Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 0.5 75th Q1 – – No
285 Gothic Studies 0.5 75th Q1 ESCI – No
286 Journal of Early Modern Studies 0.5 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
287 Mitologias Hoy 0.5 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
288 Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
289 Postmedieval 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
290 Revista Transilvania 0.5 75th Q1 – – Yes
291 RILCE. Revista de Filologia Hispanica 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
292 Science-Fiction Studies 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI – No
293 Scripta Classica Israelica 0.5 75th Q1 – – No
294 World Literature Studies 0.5 75th Q1 AHCI – No
295 Approaches to Translation Studies 0.5 74th Q2 – – No
296 Asiatic 0.5 74th Q2 ESCI – No
297 Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Etudes Byzantines 0.5 74th Q2 – – No
298 Current Writing 0.5 74th Q2 ESCI – No
299 Dicenda 0.5 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
300 Ikenga 0.5 74th Q2 – – No

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