Marvels and Tales
Published by Wayne State University Press
ISSN : 1521-4281 eISSN : 1536-1802
Abbreviation : Marvel Tale
Aims & Scope
Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales.
In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales.
In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives.
The journal's special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.1 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 0.101 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q4 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 10 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 30174 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 3 |
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