ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, together about 28.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities was established in September 1993 to provide an international forum for vanguard work in the theoretical humanities. In itself a contentious category, ’theoretical humanities’ represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities encourages a critical engagement with theory in terms of disciplinary development and intellectual and political usefulness, the inquiry into and articulation of culture, and the complex determination of change and its relation to history. The journal is committed to fostering the theory of minor movements, recognising their significant impact on and dynamic relation to the development of cultures, political spaces and academic disciplines, and emphasising their formative power rather than their oppositional entrenchment. The journal promotes inquiry into questions of existential and political definition and agency, on the personal, collective and institutional levels, and encourages the work of spirited and experimental theoretical writing in all areas of value production. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities publishes six issues per volume/year: four themed (Special) issues and two non-themed (General) issues. Articles for consideration for General issues are accepted throughout the year. The name of the journal and a little history " Angelaki", pronounced with a hard 'g' and with 'ki' pronounced 'kee', is a Greek word meaning "little angel". " Angelos" in Greek means "messenger, envoy, one that announces". The logo of the journal is a cherub; the cherubim being the order of angels associated with knowledge. Angelaki arose out of a Gilles Deleuze reading and discussion group, conducted at Oxford University at the beginning of the 1990s. Members of the discussion group, who were at the time largely postgraduate students of the University, formed the original editorial board. A number of founding editors remain involved with the journal. For five years the journal was entirely independent, selling by mail and through bookshops in the UK, Europe and the USA. Independence proved unsustainable, and in 1998 Angelaki signed with its current publisher. One of the strengths of the journal has always been its book-length sp

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief Pelagia GoulimariPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 3, United States 1, France 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

OCLC, Current Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Periodicals Index Online, Philosophy Research Index, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological AbstractsPublisher website

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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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.7Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.38Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.17Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

35OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

208OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

17.22%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

58LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

149,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Acceptance to publication

38 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0969-725X

Electronic ISSN

1469-2899

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 3-4 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website