Adaptation

Aims & Scope

Adaptation is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, film and book reviews (including both book to screen adaptations and screen to book adaptations), popular and ‘classic’ adaptations, theatre and novel screen adaptations, television, animation, soundtracks, production issues and genres in literature on screen.

Adaptation provides an international forum to theorise and interrogate the phenomenon of literature on screen from both a literary and film studies perspective.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.214

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20355

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	35

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads

  Citation: 69

  Authors: T.

• Adaptation, the Genre

  Citation: 34

  Authors: T.

• Adaptation Essay Prize Winner: Franchising/Adaptation

  Citation: 28

  Authors: C.

• Flogging Fidelity: In Defense of the (Un)Dead Horse

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Casie

• The ‘Great American Novel’ as Pop-up Book: Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Dana

• Sherlock Holmes and the Leap of Faith: The Forces of Fandom and Convergence in Adaptations of the Holmes and Watson Stories

  Citation: 21

  Authors: B.

• Cohesion in Comics and Graphic Novels: An Empirical Comparative Approach to Transmedia Adaptation in City of Glass

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Chiao-I, John A

• State of the Conversation: The Obscene Underside of Fidelity

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Nico

• Recycled Images: Rose Hobart, East of Borneo, and The Perils of Pauline

  Citation: 15

  Authors: G.

• Adaptation and New Media

  Citation: 15

  Authors: M. R.

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