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	1.821
2	Compendia Rerum Ludaicarum ad Novum Testamentum	Brill Academic Publishers	18774970	1.799
3	Metaforms	Brill Academic Publishers	22129405	1.799
4	Translation Spaces (The Netherlands)	John Benjamins Publishing Company	22113711, 2211372X	1.085
5	Written Communication	SAGE Publications Inc.	07410883, 15528472	0.946
6	Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice	Routledge	0907676X, 17476623	0.935
7	Poetics	Elsevier B.V.	0304422X	0.896
8	Men and Masculinities	SAGE Publications Inc.	15526828, 1097184X	0.811
9	Critical Review	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	8913811	0.683
10	Translation and Interpreting Studies	John Benjamins Publishing Company	19322798, 18762700	0.572
11	Asian Studies	University of Ljubljana Press	22325131, 23504226	0.562
12	Canadian Slavonic Papers	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	23752475, 00085006	0.546
13	Translation and Interpreting	University of Western Sydneys	18369324	0.53
14	Slovo.ru: Baltic Accent	Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University	22255346, 26868989	0.494
15	Journal of Writing Research	University of Antwerp	22943307, 20301006	0.49
16	International Research in Children's Literature	Edinburgh University Press	17556198, 17556201	0.46
17	International Journal of TESOL Studies	International Tesol Union Co., Ltd	26326779, 26336898	0.451
18	Persica Antiqua	Tissaphernes Archaeological Research Group	27832295, 27832732	0.45
19	OCNOS	Centro de Estudios de Promoci��n de la Lectura y Literatura Infantil, Universidad de Castilla-La	22549099, 1885446X	0.435
20	Barnboken	Swedish Institute for Children's Books	20004389	0.427
21	Children's Literature in Education	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.	15731693, 00456713	0.424
22	Language and Literature	SAGE Publications Ltd	09639470, 14617293	0.413
23	Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts	John Benjamins Publishing Company	23521813, 23521805	0.411
24	South Atlantic Quarterly	Duke University Press	15278026, 00382876	0.409
25	3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	01285157, 25502247	0.401
26	TAPA	Johns Hopkins University Press	25757199, 25757180	0.389
27	Latin American Research Review	Cambridge University Press	00238791, 15424278	0.387
28	Sociolinguistica	Walter de Gruyter GmbH	1865939X, 09331883	0.387
29	Boletin de Filologia	Universidad de Chile	07189303, 00679674	0.385
30	eTropic	James Cook University	14482940	0.383
31	Revista Tradumatica	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	15787559	0.381
32	Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities	Routledge	0969725X, 14692899	0.38
33	International Journal of Arabic-English Studies	Librairie du Liban Publishers	16800982	0.377
34	Journal of Cultural Analytics	Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University	23714549	0.373
35	New Writing	Routledge	14790726, 19433107	0.37
36	Journal of Language Teaching and Research	Academy Publication	17984769, 20530684	0.367
37	English in Education	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	17548845, 04250494	0.359
38	Keel ja Kirjandus	Foundation Kultuurileht	23466014, 01311441	0.356
39	Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriya: Istoriya, Filologiya	Novosibirsk State Technical University	18187919	0.347
40	Dicenda	Universidad Complutense Madrid	19882556, 02122952	0.34
41	L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature	International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE)	15731731, 15676617	0.334
42	PMLA	Cambridge University Press	19381530, 00308129	0.33
43	Monumenta Serica	Routledge	02549948, 20571690	0.329
44	International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies	Asian Economic and Social Society	23060646, 23069910	0.327
45	Performance Measurement and Metrics	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.	14678047	0.326
46	International Journal of Language Education	Universitas Negeri Makassar- Faculty of Languages and Literature	25488457, 25488465	0.324
47	Narrative Inquiry	John Benjamins Publishing Company	15699935, 13876740	0.323
48	Pasavento	Universidad de Alcala	22554505	0.318
49	Australian Feminist Law Journal	Routledge	22040064, 13200968	0.315
50	Literary Fact	Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature	25422421, 25418297	0.314
51	Studies in English Language and Education	Syiah Kuala University	24610275, 23552794	0.314
52	Theory and Practice in Language Studies	Academy Publication	20530692, 17992591	0.313
53	Slavia Centralis	University of Maribor	23858753, 18556302	0.309
54	International Journal of Education and the Arts	Pennsylvania State University Libraries	15298094	0.308
55	Text and Performance Quarterly	Routledge	10462937, 14795760	0.304
56	World Literature Studies	Slovak academy of Sciences, Institute of World literature	13379275, 13379690	0.301
57	Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature	Knowledge Hub Publishing Company Limited (Hong Kong)	25204920	0.3
58	Ikala	Universidad de Antioquia	1233432	0.297
59	Research in Drama Education	Routledge	1470112X, 13569783	0.295
60	English Studies	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	17444217, 0013838X	0.294
61	GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	16758021, 25502131	0.294
62	Two Centuries of the Russian Classics	Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature	26867494	0.292
63	Orbis Litterarum	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd	16000730, 01057510	0.29
64	Revista Signos	Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso	00350451, 07180934	0.29
65	Semiotica	De Gruyter Mouton	00371998, 16133692	0.288
66	Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures	Yarmouk University	19946953, 23048069	0.282
67	Science-Fiction Studies	S F - T H, Inc.	917729	0.282
68	Siglo XXI, Literatura y Cultura Espanolas	Universidad de Valladolid	21727457	0.282
69	Journal of Australian Studies	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	0314769X, 14443058	0.281
70	Miqot: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman	Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara	25023616, 08520720	0.28
71	Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics	Routledge	21504857, 21504865	0.278
72	Artnodes	Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	16955951	0.277
73	Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction	Routledge	00111619, 19399138	0.276
74	Magazen	Fondazione Universita Ca Foscari	27243923	0.273
75	Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal	Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature	27128512, 26190311	0.272
76	ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)	10760962, 17591090	0.272
77	Journal of Semitic Studies	Oxford University Press	14778556, 00224480	0.27
78	Manuscripta Orientalia	Thesa Publishers	24153613, 12385018	0.269
79	Detskie Chtenia	Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences	26867052, 23045817	0.268
80	Journal of African Cultural Studies	Routledge	13696815, 14699346	0.268
81	Atlantic Studies : Global Currents	Routledge	14788810, 17404649	0.265
82	Historias Fingidas	University of Verona, Deptarment of Foreign Languages and Literatures	22842667	0.265
83	Chaucer Review	Penn State University Press	15284204, 00092002	0.263
84	Ogigia	Universidad de Valladolid	18873731	0.263
85	Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis	Tallinn University	25046624, 25046616	0.263
86	Spanish in Context	John Benjamins Publishing Company	15710718, 15710726	0.262
87	Deleuze and Guattari Studies	Edinburgh University Press	23989777, 23989785	0.26
88	Nauchnyi Dialog	Tsentr Nauchnykh i Obrazovatelnykh Proektov	2225756X, 22271295	0.259
89	Studies in East European Thought	Springer Netherlands	15730948, 09259392	0.259
90	American Literature	Duke University Press	15272117, 00029831	0.258
91	New Literary History	Johns Hopkins University Press	00286087, 1080661X	0.258
92	Problemy Istoricheskoy Poetiki	Petrozavodsk State University	10269479, 24114642	0.258
93	Kritika i Semiotika	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philology	23071737, 23071753	0.257
94	Language and Dialogue	John Benjamins Publishing Company	22104127, 22104119	0.257
95	Speculum	University of Chicago Press	20408072, 00387134	0.257
96	TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies	Cambridge University Press	10542043, 15314715	0.255
97	Iranian Studies	Cambridge University Press	00210862, 14754819	0.254
98	Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics	Helsinki University Press	00141291, 25710915	0.251
99	Hipogrifo	Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)	23281308	0.251
100	Mongolian Studies	Kalmyk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences	25001523, 27128059	0.25
101	Theatre Research International	Cambridge University Press	14740672, 03078833	0.25
102	Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya	Tomsk State University	19986645, 23105046	0.25
103	Jezik in Slovstvo	Slavisticno drustvo v Ljubljani	00216933, 15813754	0.248
104	LLT Journal: Journal on Language and Language Teaching	Sanata Dharma University	14107201, 25799533	0.248
105	Korea Journal	The Academy of Korean Studies	233900	0.246
106	ABAC Journal	Assumption University	8580855	0.244
107	Life Writing	Routledge	14484528, 17512964	0.242
108	Quaestio Rossica	Ural Federal University	2311911X, 23136871	0.242
109	Journal of the African Literature Association	Taylor and Francis	21674736, 21674744	0.241
110	Journal of Mekong Societies	Khon Kaen University	26976056, 16866541	0.24
111	Scripta and E-Scripta	Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	1312238X, 26033364	0.24
112	Hikma	UCOPress. Editorial Universidad de Cordoba	24454559, 15799794	0.238
113	Anuario de Estudios Filologicos	Universidad de Extremadura	2108178	0.237
114	Knowledge Cultures	Addleton Academic Publishers	23756527, 23275731	0.236
115	Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics	Scandinavian University Press	20007493	0.236
116	Journal of Biblical Literature	Society of Biblical Literature	19343876, 00219231	0.235
117	Lituanistica	Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Publishers	0235716X, 24244716	0.233
118	Translation Matters	University of Porto Faculty of Arts and Humanities	21844585	0.232
119	NAN NU	Brill Academic Publishers	15685268, 13876805	0.23
120	Poetics Today	Duke University Press	3335372	0.227
121	Literator	AOSIS (Pty) Ltd	22198237, 02582279	0.226
122	Impossibilia	Universidad de Granada	21742464	0.225
123	Anthropology and Humanism	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	15481409, 15599167	0.221
124	Style	Penn State University Press	394238	0.22
125	Imagologiya i Komparativistika	Tomsk State University	24099554	0.219
126	Journal of Literary Semantics	De Gruyter Mouton	03417638, 16133838	0.219
127	a/b: Auto/Biography Studies	Routledge	08989575, 21517290	0.218
128	Journal of Roman Studies	Cambridge University Press	1753528X, 00754358	0.217
129	Letonica	Latvian University	14073110	0.217
130	Paralleles	University of Geneva	21024316, 22966684	0.217
131	Journal of Literary Multilingualism	Brill Academic Publishers	2667324X	0.216
132	World Journal of English Language	Sciedu Press	19250711, 19250703	0.216
133	Cambridge Classical Journal	Cambridge University Press	17502705, 2047993X	0.215
134	Russian Review	John Wiley and Sons Inc	14679434, 00360341	0.214
135	Text (Australia)	Australasian Association of Writing Programs	13279556	0.212
136	Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Ostravienis Studia Germanistica	University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts	25710273, 1803408X	0.211
137	Neohelicon	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.	15882810, 03244652	0.21
138	Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives	Brill Academic Publishers	0856096X, 26836408	0.21
139	Orillas	Padova University Press	22804390	0.209
140	Bakhtiniana	Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo	21764573	0.208
141	Castilla Estudios de Literatura	Department of Spanish Literature and Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature.Universidad de	19897383	0.207
142	College Composition and Communication	National Council of Teachers of English	0010096X, 19399006	0.207
143	Journal of Postcolonial Writing	Routledge	17449863, 17449855	0.207
144	Yale French Studies	Yale University Press	440078	0.207
145	En-Claves del Pensamiento	Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	25941100, 1870879X	0.206
146	Anuario Lope de Vega	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	20148860	0.205
147	Literature Compass	Wiley-Blackwell	17414113	0.205
148	Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch	Duncker und Humblot GmbH	26289849, 0075997X	0.205
149	Rusin	Association 'Rus'	23451149, 18572685	0.205
150	Kamchatka	Universitat de Valencia, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication	23401869	0.203
151	RILCE. Revista de Filologia Hispanica	Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra	21740917, 02132370	0.203
152	Studia Romanica Posnaniensia	Adam Mickiewicz University	20844158, 01372475	0.203
153	Novum Testamentum	Brill Academic Publishers	00481009, 15685365	0.202
154	Research Journal in Advanced Humanities	Royallite Global	27085953, 27085945	0.202
155	Slavisticna Revija	Slavisticna Drustvo Slovenije	03506894, 18557570	0.202
156	South African Journal of African Languages	Routledge	23051159, 02572117	0.201
157	Nueva Revista del Pacifico	Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion	07166346, 07195176	0.2
158	Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik	J.B. Metzler	2365953X, 00498653	0.2
159	International Journal of Korean History	Center for Korean History,Korea University	25085921, 15982041	0.199
160	Positions	Duke University Press	15278271, 10679847	0.199
161	Journal of Communication, Language and Culture	Multimedia University Press (MMU Press)	2805444X	0.198
162	Nederlandse Letterkunde	Amsterdam University Press	2352118X, 13845829	0.198
163	Small Axe	Duke University Press	15346714, 07990537	0.198
164	Boletin de la Biblioteca de Menendez Pelayo	Real Sociedad Menendez Pelayo	61646	0.197
165	Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry	Cambridge University Press	20522622, 20522614	0.197
166	Etudes Romanes de Brno	Masaryk University	23364416, 18037399	0.197
167	Bulletin of Hispanic Studies	Liverpool University Press	14753839, 14783398	0.196
168	Limite	Universidad de Extremadura	22537929, 18884067	0.195
169	Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature	IBBY - International Board of Books for Young People	19186983, 00067377	0.194
170	Feminist Formations	Johns Hopkins University Press	21517363, 21517371	0.194
171	Logos (Russian Federation)	National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)	08695377, 24999628	0.194
172	Revista Transilvania	Complexul National Muzeal Astra Sibiu	30612217, 02550539	0.194
173	Slovenske Divadlo	Slovak Academy of Sciences	0037699X, 13368605	0.193
174	Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Yazyk i Literatura	Saint Petersburg State University	25419366, 25419358	0.192
175	Zeitschrift fur Slawistik	Walter de Gruyter GmbH	21967016, 00443506	0.192
176	American Journal of Philology	Johns Hopkins University Press	10863168, 00029475	0.191
177	Filolog (Banja Luka)	Faculty of Philology Banja Luka	22331158, 19865864	0.191
178	Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism	Brill Academic Publishers	13842161	0.191
179	Cadernos de Traducao	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	21757968, 1414526X	0.19
180	James Baldwin Review	Manchester University Press	20569203, 20569211	0.19
181	Logos: Revista de Linguistica, Filosofia y Literatura	Universidad de la Serena,Departamento de Artes y Letras	07167520, 07193262	0.189
182	Research in African Literatures	Indiana University Press	15272044, 00345210	0.189
183	Slovo (Croatia)	Staroslavenski Institut	5836255	0.189
184	Anuario de Estudios Atlanticos	Casa de Colon, Cabildo de Gran Canaria	23865571, 05704065	0.188
185	Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies	McGill University Library	25613111	0.188
186	Przeglad Rusycystyczny	Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne	0137298X	0.188
187	Textual Practice	Routledge	0950236X, 14701308	0.188
188	Chasqui	c/o David William Foster, Arizona State University	1458973	0.187
189	Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics	Belgorod State National Research University	23138912	0.187
190	Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philology	18137083	0.187
191	Rhetoric Review	Routledge	07350198, 15327981	0.186
192	Revista Iberoamericana	Liverpool University Press	21544794, 00349631	0.185
193	AJS Review	Cambridge University Press	03640094, 14754541	0.184
194	Hispanofila	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	182206	0.184
195	Literatura y Linguistica	Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez	0717621X, 07165811	0.184
196	Research in Contemporary World Literature/ Pazhuhesh-e Zabanha-ye Khareji	Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran	25887092, 25884131	0.184
197	SHAW	Penn State University Press	07415842, 15291480	0.184
198	SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation	Slovak Association for the Study of English	13367811	0.184
199	Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals	Universitat de Valencia	23868295	0.183
200	Anales de Literatura Espanola	Universidad de Alicante	26954257, 02125889	0.182
201	Vetus Testamentum	Brill Academic Publishers	15685330, 00424935	0.182
202	Journal for the Study of Judaism	Brill Academic Publishers	15700631, 00472212	0.181
203	Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies	Taylor and Francis Ltd.	23277416, 23277408	0.18
204	Shakespeare Quarterly	Johns Hopkins University Press	00373222, 15383555	0.18
205	Studia Aurea	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	24626813, 19881088	0.18
206	452��F	Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Filologia	20133294	0.179
207	Afghanistan	Edinburgh University Press	2399357X, 23993588	0.179
208	Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature	Russian Academy of Sciences-A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature	27132226, 16076192	0.179
209	Poznanskie Studia Polonistyczne, Seria Literacka	Poznanskie Studia Polonistyczne	12338680	0.179
210	Die Welt des Islams	Brill Academic Publishers	00432539, 15700607	0.178

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