Wordsworth Circle

Aims & Scope

The Wordsworth Circle (TWC) is an international quarterly learned journal founded in 1970 to facilitate communications among colleagues interested in the lives, works, and times of British, American, and European writers from 1770 to 1850, before and after.

TWC publishes original essays, conference papers, letters, editions, bibliographies, textual and historical scholarship, biography, interpretive criticism, and critical theory, as well as interdisciplinary, cultural, and comparative studies.

It is concerned with anything that influenced, impinges upon, expresses, or contributes to an understanding of the writers, works, and events associated with Romantic studies and its after-lives.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.110

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28533

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7

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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.

• "Jacobin Plants": Botany as Social Theory in the 1790s

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Alan

• Learning from Europe: Continental Literature in the "Edinburgh Review" and "Blackwood's Magazine" 1802-1825

  Citation: 18

  Authors: J.H.

• Selling One's Sorrows: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the Marketing of Poetry

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Jacqueline M.

• The Lyric Mix: Romanticism, Genre, and the Fate of Literature

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Clifford

• The William Blake Archive

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Morris, Robert N., Joseph, Joseph, Michael

• Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Betty T.

• The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Ursula K.

• Wordsworth and Charlotte Smith

  Citation: 12

  Authors: C.

• The Politics of "Tintern Abbey"

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Kenneth R.

• Translating the Elgin Marbles: Byron, Hemans, Keats

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Angela

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