Word and Text

Aims & Scope

Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics (ISSN 2069-9271; online ISSN 2247-9163) is an annual peer-reviewed international journal which is scheduled to appear in December.

It ranges across critical theory, literary studies and criticism, cultural studies as well as general and applied linguistics.

It publishes essays and reviews in English, both by established scholars and young researchers, which explore a broad range of current issues in theory, criticism and linguistics in relation to literature, culture and language.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
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• 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.

• Hélène Cixous’s Creaturely Poethics

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Marta

• Freud and the Topos of the Wandering Jew

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Shuli

• Found in Narration: Nonhuman Voices in Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise and Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Magdalena

• Poetry, Disability and Metamodernism: Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Doris

• The Biological Unconscious, Memory and Identity in Charles Fernyhough’s A Box of Birds

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Maria

• Homofaunie: Non-human Tonalities of Listening in Derrida and Cixous

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Naomi

• Introduction: Animal (As) Writing, Writing (As) Animal

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Rodolfo

• From Blind to Blinding: Saturated Phenomena and the Speculative Lyric of the Invisible in Andrew Joron’s Poetry

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Ming-Qian

• Psychopoetic Encounters: Figurations of Difficulty

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Mieke

• Writing Animality in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Jamie