Postcolonial Studies

Aims & Scope

Postcolonial Studies is the first journal specifically aimed at publishing work which explores the various facets—textual, figural, spatial, historical, political and economic—of the colonial encounter, and the ways in which this encounter shaped the West and non-West alike.

A growing academic literature recognises that the colonial encounter was a seminal event in the history of both the West and the non-Western world, shaping culture and literature, politics and history.

From being the provenance of the ‘area studies’ scholar, it has become the site of numerous investigations from many disciplines, as well as a theoretical perspective from which to view a variety of concerns. ‘Postcolonialism’ is the name which such investigations have acquired, and Postcolonial Studies provides a forum for them.

Postcolonial Studies does not confine its attentions to any single place, region or discipline.

It publishes original and challenging contributions from all over the world, informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, including postmodernism, marxism, feminism and queer theory.

Its aim is to generate a productive dialogue and exchange between theorists and writers in disparate locations.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.217

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20205

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	124

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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.

• Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues

  Citation: 439

  Authors: Gurminder K

• Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: on (de)coloniality, border thinking and epistemic disobedience

  Citation: 268

  Authors: Walter D

• The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: cases from indigenous North America and Australia

  Citation: 236

  Authors: Audra

• Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular

  Citation: 185

  Authors: Gayatri Chakravorty

• Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial

  Citation: 176

  Authors: Suman

• Re-imagining land ownership in Australia

  Citation: 126

  Authors: Helen

• From subjugated knowledge to conjugated subjects: science and globalisation, or postcolonial studies of science?

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Warwick

• Social and public experiments and new figurations of science and politics in postcolonial Africa1

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Richard

• Postcolonial and feminist philosophies of science and technology: convergences and dissonances

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Sandra

• ‘We are of the connections’: migration, methodological nationalism, and ‘militant research’

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Nicholas

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