Philological Encounters

Aims & Scope

Philological Encounters (PHEN) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the historical and philosophical critique of philology.

The journal encourages critical and comparative perspectives that integrate textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.

Alongside four issues a year, monographs and collected volumes will occasionally be published as supplements to the journal.

PHEN is open to contributions in all fields studying the history of textual practices, hermeneutics and philology, philological controversies, and the intellectual and global history of writing, archiving, tradition-making and publishing.

Neither confined to any discipline nor bound by any geographical or temporal limits, the journal takes as its point of departure the growing concern with the global significance of philology and the potential of historically conscious and politically critical philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.

PHEN welcomes innovative and critical contributions in the form of articles as well as review articles, usually of two or three related books, and preferably from different disciplines.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.157

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23993

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	22

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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 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.

• Philology and Freedom

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Sheldon

• From Medieval Tribes to Modern Dialects: on the Afterlives of Colonial Knowledge in Arabic Dialectology

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Adam

• The Potential of World Philology

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Islam

• Orientalism, Jewish Studies and Israeli Society: A Few Comments

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Amnon

• Cultures of Comparative Philology in the Early Modern Indo-Persian World

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Rajeev

• TaḥqÄ«q vs. TaqlÄ«d in the Renaissances of Western Early Modernity

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Matthew

• Print Cultures in the Making in 19th- and 20th-Century South Asia: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Cristina, Johanna, Alaka A.

• The Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology: a Study in Social Codicology

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Olly

• Travelling East, Writing in Italian

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Pier Mattia

• Dante and the Construction of a Mediterranean Literary Space

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Elisabetta

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