Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
Academic Quarter
ISSN 1904-0008 · Aalborg University Press · Denmark
Academic Quarter: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 26 weeks (community reports); 15 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Academic Quarter is published by Aalborg University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cinema and Media Studies, Artistic and Creative Research and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, together about 25% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Academic Quarter is a peer reviewed, online, open access journal with humanistic research. The aim of the journal is to meet the demand for critical research from the humanistic in an international context. The journal covers current themes, and at the same time it will seek to create a high standard of good communication and publication of international research within the humanities. Academic Quarter has as its mission to develop and extend the traditional understanding of research within the humanities. This understanding comprises disciplines such as literature, the media, anthropology, music, sociology, psychology, gender, political science, the visual and performing arts, philosophy, linguistics, religion, and history. This humanistic scope of Academic Quarter is manifest in the archive of issues - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/issue/archive. The mission to develop research within the humanities is seen by Academic Quarter’s engagement in contemporary societal debates with an aim of having an impact on and of making a difference in the world. The humanities must take part in discussing, explaining and help solving the larger societal and cultural issues of our time. Interdisciplinarity and activism can be among the tools to reach this goal. Examples of this can be seen in earlier and recent issues such as “The challenges of art and humanities”, “Perspectives on the Anthropocene. New humanities I” and “The Aesthetics of Human Rights”. Academic Quarter has as its aim the exchange of research among international scholars, and at the same time it allows anybody to follow this exchange of the most recent research through its online and unrestricted form of publication with no fees whatsoever. The journal has a wide scope, but each issue concentrates on specific themes. Articles will be in Danish and English.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cinema and Media StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9%
- Artistic and Creative ResearchArts and Humanities9%
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social DevelopmentBusiness, Management and Accounting7%
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions6%
- Design Education and PracticeEngineering5%
- Innovative Education and Learning PracticesSocial Sciences5%
- Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureArts and Humanities5%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- h-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.45OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,021Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 79 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | 15 | 2 |
| 2024 | 32 | 32 | 19 |
| 2023 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| 2022 | 24 | 24 | 26 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 26 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 26 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,500 words
- Reference style
- Chicago
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted3
- abstractsAbstracts should be: 150 words.Length not stated
- articlesArticles should be: 3,000 – 3,500 wordsLength not stated
- video essaysVideo essays should be: 7–12 minutes.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- License & copyright
Copyright: Authors retain copyright; journal right of first publication. License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (applies to articles from November 2021 forward). Model summary
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review of articles Model summary
To ensure our double-blind peer review of the articles, authors should delete their names from the text, replace with "author" and year used in the references.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Original work only, not under consideration elsewhere Model summary
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Post-print (final draft post-refereeing) can be archived on personal websites or institutional repositories; publisher's version only on publisher's homepage; source must be acknowledged; link to publisher version required. Model summary
Authors can archive post-print (final draft post-refereeing) on personal websites or institutional repositories under these conditions: Publisher's version cannot be stored elsewhere but on publisher’s homepage The published source must be acknowledged There must be a link to the publisher version.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Aalborg University Press
- Country or region
- Denmark
- Language
- English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
- ISSN
- 1904-0008
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Academic Quarter
How long does peer review take at Academic Quarter?
Authors report an average review time of about 26 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Academic Quarter?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 3,500 words; Reference style: Chicago; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Academic Quarter?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Academic Quarter is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Academic Quarter open access, and what is the APC?
Academic Quarter is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .