Literature: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Poetics	12
2	Poetics Today	6
-	Rhetoric Society Quarterly	6
-	Childrens Literature in Education	6
5	Narrative	5
-	Textual Practice	5
-	Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry	5
-	English Studies	5
-	Journal of Postcolonial Writing	5
10	Review of English Studies	4
-	European Journal of English Studies	4
-	Life Writing	4
-	Neohelicon	4
-	Philosophy and Rhetoric	4
-	Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture	4
-	Configurations	4
17	Neophilologus	3
-	Orbis Litterarum	3
-	Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	3
-	Rhetoric Review	3
-	Tydskrif vir Letterkunde	3
-	Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik	3
-	ariel-A Review of International English Literature	3
-	Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly	3
-	Clcweb-Comparative Literature and Culture	3
-	Comparative Literature Studies	3
-	International Research in Childrens Literature	3
-	Literature Compass	3
-	MFS-Modern Fiction Studies	3
-	Novel-A Forum on Fiction	3
-	Style	3
-	Comparative Literature	3
-	Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction	3
-	English Language Notes	3
-	English Studies in Africa	3
-	Journal of Screenwriting	3
-	LiLi-Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik	3
38	Notes and Queries	2
-	Philosophy and Literature	2
-	Studia Neophilologica	2
-	Studies in the Novel	2
-	Anglia-Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie	2
-	Arcadia	2
-	CEA Critic	2
-	Comparative Critical Studies	2
-	Contemporary Womens Writing	2
-	Eighteenth-Century Fiction	2
-	Extrapolation	2
-	Jnt-Journal of Narrative Theory	2
-	Kritika Kultura	2

-	Lion and the Unicorn	2
-	Litterature	2
-	Modern Language Quarterly	2
-	Paragraph	2
-	Victorian Literature and Culture	2
-	Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews	2
-	College Literature	2
-	Etudes Anglaises	2
-	Explicator	2
-	Forum for Modern Language Studies	2
-	ISLE-Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	2
-	Journal of Literary Studies	2
-	Law & Literature	2
-	Literature and Medicine	2
-	Middle Eastern Literatures	2
-	Modern Philology	2
67	RLC-Revue de Litterature Comparee	1
-	Romantisme	1
-	Symposium-A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures	1
-	Translation Review	1
-	English	1
-	Essays in Criticism	1
-	Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture	1
-	Nineteenth-Century Literature	1
-	Religion & Literature	1
-	Rhetorica-A Journal of the History of Rhetoric	1
-	Romanticism	1
-	Science-Fiction Studies	1
-	Studies in Philology	1
-	Texas Studies in Literature and Language	1
-	Translation and Literature	1
-	Twentieth Century Literature	1
-	American Book Review	1
-	Archiv fuer das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen	1
-	Cambridge Quarterly	1
-	Eighteenth-Century Life	1
-	Journal of Arabic Literature	1
-	Literature & History-Third Series	1
-	Litteratures	1
90	Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies	0