Atlantic Studies : Global Currents

Aims & Scope

Atlantic Studies is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes cutting-edge research, studying the Atlantic world as a conceptual, historical, and cultural space.

It explores transnational, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary intersections, but also addresses global flows and perspectives beyond the Atlantic as a closed or self-contained space.

In the larger context of global flows, the journal considers the Atlantic as part of wider networks, a space of exchange, and an expanding paradigm beyond the limits of its own geography, moving beyond national, regional, and continental divides by examining entangled histories and cultures.

Published on behalf of MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the journal challenges critical orthodoxies that have drawn sharp lines between the experiences and representations of the Atlantic world and its wider global context, in particular in relation to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Topics for submissions may include but are not limited to the following: -Political and cultural processes, the impacts of globalization, markets and communications- The transnational and the transhistorical- The ‘Global Atlantic’: the global and the local; forms of historical and contemporary globalization; global cognition- Maritime geographies- Oceanic studies: the Pacific and Pacific Rim, and the Indian Ocean in relation to the Atlantic- (Trans)hemispheric perspectives- Ecologies, including non-human phenomena (animals, environments, technologies, infrastructures)- The public Atlantic: memories, museums and memorializations- Indigeneity- Forms of creolization and mestizaje/métissage- Migratory flows, diasporas and settlements- Forms of colonization and imperialism- Cosmopolitanism and civilizations- Urban and non-urban spaces- Flows of knowledge: vectors, science, medicine

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20736

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.207

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

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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 and Social Sciences, 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.

• Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions

  Citation: 211

  Authors: Philip E.

• Introduction: oceanic studies

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Hester

• “I'll teach you how to flow”: On figuring out Atlantic studies

  Citation: 29

  Authors: William

• A long Atlantic in a wider world

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Donna

• Mapping the nineteenth-century Brazilian returnee movement: Demographics, life stories and the question of slavery

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Lisa

• FROM FUGITIVE SLAVE TO FUGITIVE ABOLITIONIST

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Celeste-Marie

• Translating the vernacular: Indigenous and African knowledge in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Kathleen S.

• The Newtonian slave body: Racial enlightenment in the Atlantic World

  Citation: 23

  Authors: James

• <i>The Black Atlantic</i>: Exploring Gilroy's legacy

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Lucy

• History from below the water line: Sharks and the Atlantic slave trade

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Marcus

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