German Quarterly

Aims & Scope

The German Quarterly serves as a forum for all sorts of scholarly debates - topical, ideological, methodological, theoretical, of both the established and the experimental variety, as well as debates on recent developments in the profession.

We particularly encourage essays employing new theoretical or methodological approaches, essays on recent developments in the field, and essays on subjects that engage with the diversity of German-speaking societies and the heterogeneity of German cultural history.

The German Quarterly is an equal opportunity publication in terms of approaches, topics, epochs and styles in a landscape in which many of the best journals are now specialized.

We welcome submissions on all topics in German literature, culture and film from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary articles that are relevant to the field of German.

Back issues of The German Quarterly are accessible to users at institutions that participate in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences III and Language and Literature Collections.

Users are able to browse, search, download, and print the full-text PDF versions of articles from the first volume in 1928 up until the most recent three years.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29055

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	28

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.105

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	13

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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.

• Why Is It so Difficult to Teach Language as Culture?

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Katra, Claire

• The Reception of Walter Benjamin in the Anglo-American Literary Institution

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Jeffrey

• The Sound of Memory

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Leslie

• Salome, Syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt and the "Modern Jewess"

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Sander L.

• Du Bois and Wagner: Race, Nation, and Culture between the United States and Germany

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Russell A.

• Genres and the <i>Standards</i>: Teaching the 5 C's through Texts

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Katherine

• The Return of the Dead: Memory and Photography in W.G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Stefanie

• The Ideology of Re-Presenting the Classics: Filming der zerbrochene Krug in the Third Reich

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Marc

• Against Biopolitics: Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, and Giorgio Agamben on Political Sovereignty and Symbolic Order¹

  Citation: 13

  Authors: David

• An Island of Her Own: Heroines of the German Robinsonades from 1720 to 1800

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Jeannine

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