List of top English Literature journals

This web page aims to provide a latest list of top English Literature journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.

Top English Literature journals

Top English Literature Journals
S. No.	Journal Title	Publisher	ISSN	SJR
1	Criminology and Public Policy	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd	17459133, 15386473	1.737
2	Men and Masculinities	SAGE Publications Inc.	1097184X	1.397
3	Plant Phenomics	American Association for the Advancement of Science	26436515	1.341
4	Poetics	Elsevier	0304422X	1.173
5	Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice	Routledge	0907676X, 17476623	1.066
6	Journal of Writing Research	University of Antwerp	22943307, 20301006	1.059
7	Written Communication	SAGE Publications Inc.	7410883	0.916
8	Translation Spaces(Netherland)	John Benjamins Publishing Company	22113711, 2211372X	0.848
9	South Atlantic Quarterly	Duke University Press	382876	0.697
10	Journal of Roman Studies	Cambridge University Press	754358	0.607
11	Acta Linguistica Academica	Akademiai Kiado	25598201	0.592
12	Empirical Studies of the Arts	SAGE Publications Inc.	2762374	0.575
13	College Composition and Communication	National Council of Teachers of English	0010096X	0.568
14	Latin American Research Review	Cambridge University Press	00238791, 15424278	0.548
15	American Journal of Philology	Johns Hopkins University Press	10863168, 00029475	0.519
16	Anales Cervantinos	CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas	05699878, 19888325	0.484
17	Translation and Interpreting	School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney	18369324	0.474
18	Translation and Interpreting Studies	John Benjamins Publishing Company	19322798, 18762700	0.462
19	Revista Tradumatica	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	15787559	0.45
20	English in Education	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	17548845, 04250494	0.447
21	Brumal	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	20147910	0.445
22	Narrative	Ohio State University Press	1538974X, 10633685	0.406
23	Journal of Biblical Literature	Society of Biblical Literature	19343876, 00219231	0.394
24	Journal of African Cultural Studies	Routledge	13696815	0.39
25	Narrative Inquiry	John Benjamins Publishing Company	13876740	0.363
26	Speculum	University of Chicago Press	20408072, 00387134	0.362
27	Rhetoric Review	Routledge	07350198, 15327981	0.361
28	New Voices in Translation Studies		18195644	0.359
29	L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature	International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE)	15731731, 15676617	0.356
30	Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	0969725X, 14692899	0.355
31	Vetus Testamentum	Brill Academic Publishers	15685330, 00424935	0.352
32	Journal of Germanic Linguistics	Cambridge University Press	14753014, 14705427	0.346
33	International Journal of English Studies	Universidad de Murcia	15787044	0.34
34	New Literary History	Johns Hopkins University Press	00286087, 1080661X	0.34
35	Studies in English Language and Education	Syiah Kuala University	24610275, 23552794	0.34
36	Poetics Today	Duke University Press	3335372	0.323
37	Journal for the Study of Judaism	Brill Academic Publishers	15700631, 00472212	0.32
38	Research in Drama Education	Routledge	1470112X, 13569783	0.318
39	Bulletin of the Comediantes	Auburn University	75108	0.315
40	Revista de Literatura	CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas	19884192, 0034849X	0.313
41	Performance Measurement and Metrics	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.	14678047	0.312
42	GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press	16758021	0.309
43	International Journal of Arabic-English Studies	Librairie du Liban Publishers	16800982	0.309
44	OCNOS	Universidad de Castilla la Mancha	1885446X	0.304
45	a/b: Auto/Biography Studies	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	21517290	0.302
46	eTropic	James Cook University	14482940	0.3
47	Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriya: Istoriya, Filologiya	Novosibirsk State University	18187919	0.289
48	American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography	Duke University Press	15272117, 00029831	0.287
49	Neophilologus	Springer Netherlands	15728668, 00282677	0.286
50	3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	01285157, 25502247	0.283
51	Novel	Duke University Press	295132	0.283
52	FORUM (Netherlands)	John Benjamins Publishing Company	15987647, 2451909X	0.281
53	Revista Signos	Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso	00350451, 07180934	0.281
54	Language and Literature	SAGE Publications Ltd	09639470, 14617293	0.278
55	Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature	Royal Irish Academy	20090048, 00358991	0.278
56	Children's Literature in Education	Springer Netherlands	456713	0.277
57	Journal of Cultural Analytics	Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University	23714549	0.277
58	Anuario Lope de Vega	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	20148860	0.275
59	Ikala	Publishing University of Antioquia	1233432	0.273
60	Signa	Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, UNED	22549307, 11333634	0.272
61	Spanish in Context	John Benjamins Publishing Company	15710718, 15710726	0.27
62	Irish Studies Review	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	9670882	0.269
63	Mongolian Studies	Kalmyk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences	25001523, 27128059	0.268
64	Scripta Classica Israelica	Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies	3344509	0.263
65	Quaestio Rossica	Ural Federal University	2311911X, 23136871	0.262
66	Slavisticna Revija	Slavisticna Drustvo Slovenije	3506894	0.262
67	Small Axe	Duke University Press	15346714, 07990537	0.261
68	Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Yazyk i Literatura	Saint Petersburg State University	25419366, 25419358	0.261
69	International Journal of Language Education	Universitas Negeri Makassar- Faculty of Languages and Literature	25488457, 25488465	0.26
70	Sartre Studies International	Berghahn Journals	13571559, 15585476	0.258
71	Semiotica	De Gruyter Mouton	00371998, 16133692	0.258
72	Language and Dialogue	John Benjamins Publishing Company	22104127, 22104119	0.254
73	Journal of Islamic Studies	Oxford University Press	09552340, 14716917	0.252
74	Keel ja Kirjandus	Foundation Kultuurileht	1311441	0.252
75	Boletin de Filologia	Universidad de Chile	07189303, 00679674	0.25
76	Asian Studies	University of Ljubljana	22325131, 23504226	0.248
77	Cultura, Lenguaje y Representacion	Universitat Jaume I	23404981, 16977750	0.246
78	Anthropology and Humanism	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	15481409, 15599167	0.245
79	Studies in East European Thought	Springer Netherlands	15730948, 09259392	0.245
80	Victorian Studies	Indiana University Press	15272052, 00425222	0.245
81	Journal of Hellenic Studies	Cambridge University Press	754269	0.242
82	Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya	Tomsk State University	19986645, 23105046	0.242
83	Irish University Review	Edinburgh University Press	00211427, 20472153	0.239
84	Journal of Postcolonial Writing	Routledge	17449863, 17449855	0.239
85	Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction	Routledge	00111619, 19399138	0.237
86	Journal of World Literature	Brill Academic Publishers	24056472, 24056480	0.237
87	Style	Northern Illinois University, Department of English	394238	0.236
88	Renaissance Quarterly	University of Chicago Press	19350236, 00344338	0.233
89	Cambridge Classical Journal	Cambridge University Press	17502705, 2047993X	0.231
90	Life Writing	Routledge	14484528, 17512964	0.231
91	Journal of Mekong Societies	Khon Kaen University	26976056, 16866541	0.227
92	Studies in the Age of Chaucer	New Chaucer Society	19490755, 01902407	0.227
93	American Literary History	Oxford University Press	14684365, 08967148	0.226
94	New Writing	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	14790726, 19433107	0.226
95	Studia Litterarum	Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature	25004247, 25418564	0.226
96	International Journal of Education and the Arts	Pennsylvania State University Libraries	15298094	0.224
97	Revista de Poetica Medieval	Alcala University	2660891X, 11378905	0.224
98	Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur	Istanbul University Faculty of Letters	26199890, 13039407	0.224
99	Atlantic Studies : Global Currents	Routledge	14788810, 17404649	0.223
100	Slavia Centralis	Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor	23858753, 18556302	0.223
101	Kritika i Semiotika	Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	23071737, 23071753	0.219
102	Perinola	Universidad de Navarra	11386363	0.218
103	RILCE	Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad De Navarra	2132370	0.218
104	Theatre Journal	Johns Hopkins University Press	01922882, 1086332X	0.218
105	Literature Compass	Wiley-Blackwell	17414113	0.217
106	Text and Performance Quarterly	Routledge	10462937	0.217
107	Librosdelacorte.es	Instituto Universitario La Corte en Europa""	19896425	0.216
108	Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies	Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature	20030924	0.216
109	Estudos Historicos	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	01032186, 21781494	0.211
110	Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics	Routledge	21504857, 21504865	0.211
111	American Imago	Johns Hopkins University Press	10857931, 0065860X	0.21
112	Hipogrifo	Universidad de Navarra	23281308	0.21
113	Studia Aurea	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	24626813, 19881088	0.21
114	Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics	Belgorod State National Research University	23138912	0.209
115	Transactions of the American Philological Association	Johns Hopkins University Press	03605949, 15330699	0.209
116	Boletin de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua	Academia Peruana de La Lengua	27082644, 05676002	0.208
117	Byzantinische Zeitschrift	Walter de Gruyter GmbH	00077704, 18689027	0.207
118	Revista de Literatura Medieval	Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Departamento de Filologia	11303611	0.207
119	Literator	AOSIS (Pty) Ltd	2582279	0.206
120	Modern Drama	University of Toronto Press	00267694, 17125286	0.206
121	Modern Language Quarterly	Duke University Press	267929	0.206
122	Studies in American Humor	Penn State University Press	23339934, 0095280X	0.205
123	Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures	Yarmouk University	19946953, 23048069	0.204
124	PMLA	Cambridge University Press	308129	0.204
125	Islamic Africa	Brill Academic Publishers	2333262X, 21540993	0.203
126	Logos: Revista de Linguistica, Filosofia y Literatura	Universidad de la Serena,Departamento de Artes y Letras	07167520, 07193262	0.203
127	Jezik in Slovstvo	Slavisticno drustvo v Ljubljani	00216933, 15813754	0.202
128	English Language Notes	University of Colorado	138282	0.201
129	Victorian Literature and Culture	Cambridge University Press	10601503, 14701553	0.2
130	Revista Transilvania	Complexul National Muzeal Astra Sibiu	2550539	0.199
131	ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries	Ljubljana University Press	15818918, 23860316	0.198
132	International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies	Asian Economic and Social Society	23060646, 23069910	0.198
133	World Literature Studies	Ustav svetovej literatury SAV	13379275, 13379690	0.198
134	Letonica	Latvian University	14073110	0.196
135	Deleuze and Guattari Studies	Edinburgh University Press	23989777, 23989785	0.195
136	Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies	Cambridge University Press	3070131	0.194
137	Classical Quarterly	Cambridge University Press	00098388, 14716844	0.194
138	ELH - English Literary History	Johns Hopkins University Press	10806547, 00138304	0.193
139	ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)	10760962, 17591090	0.192
140	De Medio Aevo	Universidad Complutense Madrid	22555889	0.19
141	Ikenga	University of Nigeria, Institute of African Studies	20064241, 27144321	0.189
142	Journal of Australian Studies	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	0314769X, 14443058	0.188
143	SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation		13367811	0.186
144	Forum for World Literature Studies	Shanghai Normal University	21546711, 19498519	0.185
145	Journal of English Language and Literature	English Language and Literature Association of Korea	10162283, 24658545	0.185
146	Modern Chinese Literature and Culture	Edinburgh University Press	15209857, 2328966X	0.185
147	Text (Australia)		13279556	0.185
148	International Journal of Korean History	Center for Korean History, Korea University	25085921, 15982041	0.184
149	Postmedieval	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.	20405979, 20405960	0.184
150	English Text Construction	John Benjamins Publishing Company	18748775, 18748767	0.183
151	Journal for the History of Rhetoric	Penn State University Press	26878011, 26878003	0.182
152	Cuadernos de Ilustracion y Romanticismo	Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Cadiz	11328304, 21730687	0.181
153	Mnemosyne	Brill Academic Publishers	00267074, 1568525X	0.181
154	Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie	Walter de Gruyter GmbH	498661	0.181
155	Critical Review	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	8913811	0.18
156	Hikma	Universidad de Cordoba	15799794	0.179
157	Research Journal in Advanced Humanities	Royallite Global	27085953, 27085945	0.179
158	Chaucer Review, The	Penn State University Press	15284204, 00092002	0.178
159	Cedille	Asociacion de Profesores de Frances de la Universidad Espanola	16994949	0.177
160	Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies	Edinburgh University Press	20541996, 20541988	0.177
161	Lexis (Peru)	Pontifical Catholic University of Peru	02549239, 22233768	0.177
162	Modern Philology	University of Chicago	00268232, 15456951	0.176
163	Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts	John Benjamins Publishing Company	23521813, 23521805	0.176
164	Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses	University of Alicante	2171861X, 02144808	0.175
165	Slovo.ru: Baltic Accent	Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University	22255346, 26868989	0.175
166	Artnodes	Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	16955951	0.173
167	Bulletin of Hispanic Studies	Liverpool University Press	14753839, 14783398	0.173
168	South African Journal of African Languages	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	2572117	0.173
169	International Research in Children's Literature	Edinburgh University Press	17556198, 17556201	0.172
170	Lexis	Edizioni Ca Foscari	27241564	0.172
171	Positions	Duke University Press	15278271, 10679847	0.172
172	Mitologias Hoy	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	20141130	0.171
173	Review of English Studies, The	Oxford University Press	14716968, 00346551	0.171
174	Acta Baltico-Slavica	Bialostockie Towarzystwo Naukowe	651044	0.17
175	Kritika Kultura	Ateneo de Manila University	1656152X	0.17
176	Literatura y Linguistica	Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez	7165811	0.17
177	Oralia	Arco Libros	15751430	0.17
178	Scrutiny2	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	18125441, 17535409	0.17
179	Gripla	Stofnun Arna Magnussonar	10185011	0.169
180	NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies	University of Oslo, Department of British and American Studies	15027694	0.169
181	Estudios Filologicos	Universidad Austral de Chile	00711713, 07176171	0.167
182	Journal of Commonwealth Literature	SAGE Publications Ltd	17416442, 00219894	0.167
183	Knowledge Cultures	Addleton Academic Publishers	23756527, 23275731	0.167
184	Foreign Literature Studies	Central China Normal University	10037519	0.166
185	Mark Twain Annual	Penn State University Press	15530981, 17562597	0.166
186	Aevum - Rassegna di Scienze Storiche Linguistiche e Filologiche	Vita e Pensiero	00019593, 1827787X	0.165
187	Studia Metrica et Poetica	University of Tartu Press	2346691X, 23466901	0.165
188	Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies	Intellect Ltd.	2057035X, 20570341	0.164
189	Parallax	Routledge	13534645, 1460700X	0.164
190	Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture	Duke University Press	23290056, 23290048	0.163
191	Kervan	Universita degli Studi di Torino, Facolta di Lingue e Letterature Straniere	1825263X	0.162
192	Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd	17540208, 17540194	0.161
193	Nueva Revista del Pacifico	Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion	07166346, 07195176	0.161
194	Asian Ethnology	Nanzan University	18826865	0.16
195	Ben Jonson Journal	Edinburgh University Press	10793453, 1755165X	0.16
196	Criticon	Presses Universitaires du Midi	22729852, 0247381X	0.16
197	Early American Literature	University of North Carolina Press	00128163, 1534147X	0.16
198	Logos (Russian Federation)	Gaidar Institute Press	08695377, 24999628	0.16
199	Atlantis	Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies	2106124	0.159
200	Estetika : The Central European Journal of Aesthetics	Charles University, Faculty of Arts	141291	0.159

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