CounterText

Aims & Scope

CounterText is uniquely centred on the study of literature and its 21st-century extensions.

Is literature what it used to be?

Are the broader resonances of the literary being overtaken in the drifts towards image cultures, digital spaces, globalisation and technoscientific advances?

Or might the literary simply be elsewhere?

CounterText seeks and commissions contributions that explore this fluid 'post-literary' reality in its various forms and challenges.

For CounterText, the post-literary is the domain in which any artefact that might have some claim on the literary appears.

Inevitably, most of these artefacts will conform to familiar manifestations of the literary, doing little to reconfigure cultural givens and accepted notions of textuality.

However, the post-literary domain also allows for vital and challenging migrations and mutations of the literary.

Such artefacts might be called 'countertextual'.

The countertextual is strategic, energetic, metamorphic and revelatory of the charged evolutions and radical transformations of the literary today.

Fully peer-reviewed, CounterText seeks to explore this perspective on the literary in the 21st century.

The journal is informed by perspectives derived from literary criticism, cultural criticism, philosophy and political theory, with a particular interest in studying technology’s reshaping of literary and post-literary cultures.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28291

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	19

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.111

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	7

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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.

• Editorial: Countertextuality and the Political

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Ivan, James

• Literature in Our Time, or, Loving Literature to Bits

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ivan

• The Post-Literary, Post-Truth, and Modernity

  Citation: 8

  Authors: James

• A Retrospect on the Limits of Postcolonial Studies

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Benita

• Guest Editor's IntroductionThe Mimetic Condition: Theory and Concepts

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Nidesh

• Navigating (Post-)Anthropocenic Times of Crisis: A Critical Cartography of Hope

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Evelien

• The <i>CounterText</i> Interview: Tom McCarthy

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Tom, James, Ivan

• Now: A Post-Romantic Countertextuality of the Contemporary

  Citation: 5

  Authors: James

• The Obsolescence of Privacy

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Günther

• The<i>CounterText</i>Interview: Jean-Luc Nancy Mimesis: A Singular-Plural Concept

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Jean-Luc, Nidesh

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