Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal) was founded in 2002 as a fully refereed international journal.

It publishes new, stimulating and provocative ideas on Palestine, Israel and the wider Middle East, paying particular attention to issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest.

The journal draws upon expertise from virtually all relevant disciplines: history, politics, culture, literature, archaeology, geography, economics, religion, linguistics, biblical studies, sociology and anthropology.

The journal deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; religion and politics in the Middle East; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism, and interfaith relations; modernisation and postmodernism; religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism, Neo-Zionism, Christian Zionism, anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism; theologies of liberation in Palestine and Israel; colonialism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonisation; ‘History from below’ and Subaltern studies; ‘One-state’ and Two States’ solutions in Palestine and Israel; Crusader studies, Genocide studies and Holocaust studies.

Conventionally these diversified discourses are kept apart.

This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal brings them together.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.118

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	13

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27461

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	15

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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.

• Settler-Colonialism, Memoricide and Indigenous Toponymic Memory: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the Israeli State

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Nur

• The Biopolitics of Israeli Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Bedouin Children Theorise the Present

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Nadera

• Palestine's Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Manar

• Language, Identity and Conflict: Examining Collective Identity through the Labels of the Palestinians in Israel

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Muhammad

• The Conflict over Jerusalem: A Settler-Colonial Perspective

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Awad

• Palestinian Lives Matter: Racialising Israeli Settler-Colonialism

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Ronit

• Israel's New Constitutional Imagination: The Nation State Law and Beyond

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Amal

• Indigenous Students’ Geographies on the Academic Fortress Campus: Palestinian Students’ Spatial Experiences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Yara

• Disrupting Settler-Colonialism or Enforcing the Liberal ‘Peace’? Transitional (In)justice in Palestine-Israel

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Brendan Ciarán

• Jerusalemites and the Issue of Citizenship in the Context of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Walid

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