Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

Aims & Scope

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review publishes essays about Whitman, his influence, his cultural contexts, his life, and his work.

WWQR also publishes newly discovered Whitman manuscripts, and we publish shorter notes dealing with significant discoveries related to Whitman.

Major critical works about Whitman are reviewed in virtually every issue, and Ed Folsom maintains an up-to-date and annotated "Current Bibliography" of work about Whitman, published in each issue.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.101

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	30431

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3

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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.

• Whitman on "The Black Question": A New Manuscript

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Geoffrey

• Manly Health and Training, With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Mose

• Race and the Family Romance: Whitman's Civil War

  Citation: 12

  Authors: George

• Seery, John E., ed., A Political Companion to Walt Whitman

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Betsy

• "That I could look ... on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning": Walt Whitman's Anti-Gallows Writing and the Appeal to Christian Sympathy

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Paul Christian

• Toward Zoopoetics: Rethinking Whitman's "Original Energy"

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Aaron M.

• Drum-Taps: Revisions and Reconciliation

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Cristanne

• "Nature's Stomach": Emerson, Whitman, and the Poetics of Digestion

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Sean Ross

• Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Collectors Reprints facsimile of 1855 [review]

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Ed

• Liminal Spaces: Literal and Conceptual Borderlines in Whitman's Civil War Poems

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Joan R

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