Italian Studies

Aims & Scope

Italian Studies was founded in 1937 as the journal of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), the principal professional association of teachers of Italian and Italian studies in Higher Education in the UK and Ireland, whose aim is 'to advance public education by furthering the study of Italy, Italian language, literature, thought, history, society, and arts in the United Kingdom and Ireland'.

Members of the Society of Italian Studies are entitled to receive Italian Studies at a discounted price, as well as to exclusive discounts on book in the Italian Perspectives and SIS Occasional Papers series.

Italian Studies has a national and international reputation for academic and scholarly excellence, publishing original articles (in Italian or English) on a wide range of Italian cultural concerns from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era.

The journal warmly welcomes submissions covering a range of disciplines and inter-disciplinary subjects from scholarly and critical work on Italy's literary culture and linguistics to Italian history and politics, film and art history, and gender and cultural studies.

It publishes four issues per year, normally including one special themed issue and occasional interviews with leading scholars.

The reviews section in the journal includes articles and short reviews on a broad spectrum of recent works of scholarship.

Both established scholars and young researchers regularly publish in the journal and recent issues have included work by contributors from the UK, Ireland, Italy, North America, and Australia.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.110

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28512

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	23

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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.

• Italy's Postcolonial Cinema and its Histories of Representation

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Derek

• <I>ORE ITALIANE</I>: THE RECKONING OF THE TIME OF DAY IN PRE-NAPOLEONIC ITALY

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Michael

• Towards a Trans-national Turn in Italian Studies?

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Emma

• Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa: The Counter Narrative of the Aesthetic Discourse

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Federica

• 'Whore-ocracy': Show Girls, the Beauty Trade-Off, and Mainstream Oppositional Discourse in Contemporary Italy

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Danielle

• ‘I padri e i maestri’: Genre, Auteurs, and Absences in Italian Film Studies

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Catherine

• From the Street to Stereotype: Urban Space, Travel and the Picturesque in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Melissa

• The Italian Postcolonial: A Manifesto

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Cristina, Caterina

• Lampedusa: From a Fishing Island in the Middle of the Mediterranean to a Tourist Destination in the Middle of Europe’s External Border

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Giacomo

• REMIGIO GIROLAMI'S <I>DE BONO COMMUNI:</I> FLORENCE AT THE TIME OF DANTE'S BANISHMENT AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S ANSWER TO THE CRISIS

  Citation: 14

  Authors: L.

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