Manuscript Studies

Aims & Scope

Manuscript Studies is a new journal that embraces the full complexity of global manuscript studies in the digital age.

It has been conceived with four main goals in mind.

View Aims & Scope

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.143

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25057

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.

• The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: A Tale of Two Texts

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Naima, Siam, Grigory, Peter E., William I., Natalia

• Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging into Data for the History and Provenance of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Toby, Eero, Lynn, Hanno

• The Western Manuscript Collection of Alfred Chester Beatty (ca. 1915–1930)

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Laura

• Analyzing Images, Editing Texts: The Manchester Project

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Naima, Siam, Peter E., William I., Natalia

• “My Written Books of Surgery in the Englishe Tonge”: The London Company of Barber-Surgeons and the Lylye of Medicynes

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Erin

• Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps in North American Institutions

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Toby

• How Many Glyphs and How Many Scribes? Digital Paleography and the Voynich Manuscript

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Lisa Fagin

• Prefatory Notes on Persian Idioms of Islamic Jurisprudence: Reasoning and Procedures of Law-Making in Premodern Islamicate India

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Naveen

• The Two YoḥannÓ™ses of Santo Stefano degli Abissini, Rome: Reconstructing Biography and Cross-Cultural Encounter Through Manuscript Evidence

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Samantha, Denis

• The Handwritten and the Printed: Issues of Format and Medium in Japanese Premodern Books

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Linda H., Julie Nelson

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