Journal of English Language and Literature

Aims & Scope

The Journal of English Language and Literature, or JELL(ISSN 1016-2283), is Korea’s leading academic journal covering the convergent fields of English studies, culture, education, and interdisciplinary humanities.

The journal is double blind peer-reviewed, and published four times a year by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK).

The journal also appears online, in full text and open access (E-ISSN: 2465-8545).

The first issue of JELL was published in July 1955 and, since then, has provided opportunities for ELLAK members to disseminate scholarship to readers both locally and internationally.

Scholarly papers appearing in the journal span all historical periods up to the present moment, and explore diverse geographic sites and texts throughout the English-speaking world; papers appearing in JELL mobilize state-of-the-art analyses, deploying both emergent and canonical theoretical frameworks.

This broad scope reflects the particular historical contexts of the journal, which was launched in the aftermath of the Korean War.

From the outset, JELL has striven to create an interdisciplinary space promoting both compositional excellence and enduringly relevant critique.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.184

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	22190

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	10

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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

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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.

• Becoming Cosmopolitan through Traveling? Some Anthropological Reflections

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• Category Matching between English and Korean Consonants in Different Prosodic Environments

  Citation: 6

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• “Operationalizing”: or, the Function of Measurement in Modern Literary Theory

  Citation: 4

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• Cosmopolitanism, World Literature and Chinese Literary Practice

  Citation: 2

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• Beyond the Global Village

  Citation: 2

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• Abjection and Sacrifice in Christos Tsiolkas’ “Merciless Gods” (2014)

  Citation: 2

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• Proficiency-Differentiated and Discipline-Specific Student Needs for English-Medium Content-based Courses

  Citation: 2

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• Freud’s and Derrida’s Theories of Mourning: “I Mourn Therefore I Am”

  Citation: 2

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• The Purloined Letter of “友”: A Critique of Ezra Pound’s Poetics of Translation

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• The Haunted Black South and the Alternative Oceanic Space: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

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