Literature, Critique, and Empire Today

Aims & Scope

Now in its sixth decade, Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly the Journal of Commonwealth Literature) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal.

Internationally recognized as the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field of postcolonial literatures, the journal publishes work on the following areas of research: theories and strategies of anticolonial resistance- race and racialization- postcolonial publishing studies- postcolonial geographies- Indigenous studies- settler colonialisms- postcolonial health humanities- postcolonial environmental studies- comparative postcolonial studies- refugee and diaspora studies- decolonizing methodologies- neoliberalism in the Global South- postcolonial genre and popular fictions- languages and translation- the field’s intersections with gender, sexuality, religion, class, and caste

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.149

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	22

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24603

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	55

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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, 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.

• East and Central Africa 2023

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Grace A.

• Indigenous eco-consciousness in recent Nigerian poetry: The example of Joe Ushie

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Romanus

• Agential realism and trans-corporeality in contemporary South Asian literature

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Megan E.

• This generation’s <i>Wild Swans</i>? Counter-stereotyping self-creation in Xiaolu Guo’s <i>Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up</i>

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Yifan

• Against Afropolitanism: Race and the Black migrant body in contemporary African poetry

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Tosin

• Cinematic empire and nostalgia in <i>Viceroy’s House</i> and <i>Victoria and Abdul</i>

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Tehmina, Saba

• Naming matters: A new chapter for the <i>Journal of Commonwealth Literature</i>

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Rehana, Shital

• Eye Errant: Kei Miller’s <i>The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way To Zion</i> and the geopoetics of the senses

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Wei

• “A bit of the other”: Black edibility and white consumption in Andrea Levy’s <i>Small Island</i>

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Corrine

• “New patriotism” in post-war Sri Lanka and the revival of the Walauva as a site of power in contemporary Sri Lankan English fiction

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Vihanga

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