Text Matters

Aims & Scope

The journal focuses on textual realities, but contributions related to art, music, film and media studies addressing the text are also invited.

Submissions in English should relate to the key issues delineated in calls for articles which will be placed on the website in advance.

The journal also features reviews of recently published books, and interviews with writers and scholars whose work has been recognized in the areas addressed in TM.

Responses to the articles are more than welcome so as to make the journal a forum of lively academic debate.

TM is based in a university in central Poland, but its intercontinental advisory board of internationally renowned scholars makes it possible to connect diverse central perspectives.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

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.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Eduardo

• Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Christine

• The New Sentence: June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Paweł

• Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Anna

• Environmental Neocolonialism and the Quest for Social Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Brygida

• Boundaries and Otherness in Science Fiction: We Cannot Escape the Human Condition

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Isabella

• IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Mieke

• A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Christine

• The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Paulina

• Sensorial Aesthetics: Cross-Modal Stylistics in Modernist Fiction

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Niklas