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Best Literature and Literary Theory journals

1,186 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Literature and Literary Theory. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 – – Yes
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 for the History of Rhetoric 1.3 94th Q1 – – No
62 Journal of Literary Semantics 1.3 94th Q1 AHCI – No
63 Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii 1.3 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
64 TAPA 1.3 94th Q1 – – No
65 Asian Ethnology 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI – Yes
66 Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures 1.2 94th Q1 ESCI – No
67 Journal of Germanic Linguistics 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
68 Keel ja Kirjandus 1.2 94th Q1 – – Yes
69 New Literary History 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI – No
70 Research in Drama Education 1.2 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
71 Studies in Somaesthetics 1.2 94th Q1 – – No
72 Language and Dialogue 1.2 93th Q1 ESCI – No
73 Letonica 1.2 93th Q1 – – No
74 American Journal of Philology 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
75 English Studies in Africa 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
76 Islamic Africa 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
77 Journal of Biblical Literature 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
78 Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 1.1 93th Q1 – – No
79 Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting 1.1 93th Q1 – – No
80 Persica Antiqua 1.1 93th Q1 – – No
81 Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis 1.1 93th Q1 – – No
82 Positions 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
83 Renaissance Quarterly 1.1 93th Q1 AHCI – No
84 Journal of Mekong Societies 1.1 92th Q1 – – No
85 Spanish in Context 1.1 92th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
86 Bandung: Journal of the Global South 1 92th Q1 ESCI – No
87 Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 1 92th Q1 – – No
88 Cambridge Classical Journal 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
89 Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal 1 92th Q1 – – Yes
90 International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 1 92th Q1 ESCI – No
91 Literature, Critique, and Empire Today 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
92 Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos 1 92th Q1 ESCI – Yes
93 Revista Signos 1 92th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
94 Shakespeare Bulletin 1 92th Q1 – – No
95 TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
96 Theatre Research International 1 92th Q1 AHCI – No
97 Acta Linguistica Academica 1 91th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
98 Comparative Literature 1 91th Q1 AHCI – No
99 Digital Philology: Journal of Medieval Cultures 1 91th Q1 – – No
100 Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 1 91th Q1 ESCI – No

Rank and percentile are within the Literature and Literary Theory Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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