German Life and Letters

Aims & Scope

German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A.

Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell.

In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general".

German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present.

The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.108

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28728

Journal Citation Indicator

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 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.

• Turkish Girls, Allah's Daughters, and the Contemporary German Subject: Itinerary of a Figure¹

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Yasemin

• INTRODUCTION

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Steve, Stephen

• Kafka, Critical Theory, Dialectical Theology: Adorno's Case against Hans‐Joachim Schoeps

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Margarete

• <i>Deutsche Schrift</i>: The Demise and Rise of German Black Letter

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Gerald

• On the (In)Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory¹

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Aleida

• Der Harem in Familienblättern des 19. Jahrhunderts: Koloniale Phantasien und Nationale Identität

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Antje

• Long Memories: The German Student Movement in Recent Fiction

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Ingo

• ON THE GRADUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THOUGHTS DURING SPEECH

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Heinrich, Michael

• Poetry after Auschwitz – Adorno's Dictum

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Klaus

• The Sign of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose Narratives

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Peter

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