Contemporary Women's Writing

Aims & Scope

Contemporary Women’s Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present, especially in essays that reach beyond a reading of a single text in order to challenge existing thinking or extend debates about an author, genre, topic, or theoretical perspective and relate literary analysis to wider cultural and intellectual contexts.The journal aims to reflect retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women’s writing.

It welcomes theoretical, cultural, historical, geographical, formalist, and political approaches to contemporary women’s writing.

It takes an interest in the production and reception of contemporary women’s writing, in terms of the practices of individual authors, the creation of cultural and literary fields, and the construction of readerships.

Publishing original work in English, Contemporary Women’s Writing is open to essays on literature in English and other languages and to interviews with prominent women writers of any nationality.

It welcomes submissions relating to all literary forms and from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The journal editors invite proposals for special issues, to be coordinated by guest associate editors.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24894

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	16

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.145

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	10

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
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• 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.

• Naming Same-Sex Desire in Caribbean Women's Texts: Toward a Creolizing Hermeneutics

  Citation: 19

  Authors: D.

• An Interview with Leila Aboulela

  Citation: 10

  Authors: C.

• Introduction: The Gender Politics of Experiment

  Citation: 9

  Authors: K.

• Object Relations

  Citation: 9

  Authors: R.

• How to Do Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Anne Carson's Nox, Multimodality, and the Ethics of Bookishness

  Citation: 8

  Authors: L.

• Origins, Searches, and Identity: Narratives of Adoption from China

  Citation: 8

  Authors: M.

• "Love and the Imagination Are Not Gendered Things": An Interview with Ali Smith

  Citation: 7

  Authors: T.

• "A Democracy of Voice"? Narrating Community in Ali Smith's Hotel World

  Citation: 7

  Authors: E. E.

• Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference

  Citation: 7

  Authors: W.

• Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of "Genre Literature"

  Citation: 6

  Authors: J.

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