Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction

Aims & Scope

Since its inception in the 1950s, Critique has consistently identified the most notable novelists of our time.

In the pages of Critique appeared the first authoritative discussions of Bellow and Malamud in the '50s, Barth and Hawkes in the '60s, Pynchon, Elkin, Vonnegut, and Coover in the '70s; DeLillo, Atwood, Morrison, and García Márquez in the '80s; Auster, Amy Tan, David Foster Wallace, and Nurrudin Farah in the '90s; and Lorrie Moore and Mark Danielewski in the new century.

Readers go to Critique for critical essays on new authors with emerging reputations, but the general focus of the journal is fiction after 1950 from any country.

Critique is published five times a year.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.336

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15511

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	88

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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.

• The changing face of post-postmodern fiction: Irony, sincerity, and populism

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Jon

• The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Tom

• Flooded Futures: The Representation of the Anthropocene in Twenty-First-Century British Flood Fictions

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Astrid

• “You’re black”: Transnational perceptions of race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s<i>Americanah</i>and Andrea Levy’s<i>Small Island</i>

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Mindi

• Metamodernism, the Anthropocene, and the Resurgence of Historicity: Ben Lerner’s<i>10:04</i>and “The Utopian Glimmer of Fiction”

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Alison

• Aging as emasculation? Rethinking aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Josep M.

• Mastering Otherness with a Look: On the Politics of the Gaze and Technological Possibility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s <i>Klara and the Sun</i>

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Nicola

• Post/Human Perfectibility and the Technological Other in Kazuo Ishiguro’s <i>Klara and the Sun</i>

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Yuqing

• Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's<i>Infinite Jest</i>

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Catherine

• “Witness to the Uttermost Edge of the World”: Judge Holden's Textual Enterprise in Cormac McCarthy's<i>Blood Meridian</i>

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Joshua J.

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