Novel

Aims & Scope

Novel is the official journal of the Society for Novel Studies.

Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies.

The journal took up this mission in the days of formalism and has responded to the innovative moments in the field during the half-century that has elapsed since then—including ideology critique, feminist and critical race theory, poststructuralism, cultural studies, and new historicism—by publishing the most interesting new work on the novel.

As globalization and crises in biopolitics and the environment rapidly increase, and as models of affect theory multiply, the novel and how we read it are undergoing a sea change.

Novel is especially interested in theory and scholarship that address these changes in terms of their formal, historical, political, and/or epistemological significance.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.174

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	20

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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, 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.

• Towards a Poetics of Fiction: 3) An Approach through Narrative

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Barbara

• Structural Analysis of Narrative

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Tzvetan, Arnold

• Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature

  Citation: 35

  Authors: REBECCA L.

• Novel, History and Type

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Frank

• That Obscure Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Nicholas

• <i>Cruelty Is Bad: Banality and Proximity in</i> Never Let Me Go

  Citation: 31

  Authors: BRUCE

• Fictions of the Global

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Rita

• The Politics of Genre in "Beloved"

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Madhu

• Domestic Frontier Romance, or, How the Sentimental Heroine Became White

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Ezra F.

• Age of Bronze, State of Grace: Music and Dogs in Coetzee's "Disgrace"

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Derek

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