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Atlantic Studies-Global Currents
ISSN 1478-8810 · eISSN 1740-4649 · Taylor & Francis
Atlantic Studies-Global Currents: CAS Zone 3 · History (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.5 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 194 days to acceptance (48 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 43% (journal website); 21 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Atlantic Studies-Global Currents is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Caribbean history, culture, and politics and Caribbean and African Literature and Culture, together about 35.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Atlantic Studies is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes cutting-edge research, studying the Atlantic world as a conceptual, historical, and cultural space. It explores transnational, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary intersections, but also addresses global flows and perspectives beyond the Atlantic as a closed or self-contained space. In the larger context of global flows, the journal considers the Atlantic as part of wider networks, a space of exchange, and an expanding paradigm beyond the limits of its own geography, moving beyond national, regional, and continental divides by examining entangled histories and cultures. Published on behalf of MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the journal challenges critical orthodoxies that have drawn sharp lines between the experiences and representations of the Atlantic world and its wider global context, in particular in relation to the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Topics for submissions may include but are not limited to the following: Political and cultural processes, the impacts of globalization, markets and communications The transnational and the transhistorical The ‘Global Atlantic’: the global and the local; forms of historical and contemporary globalization; global cognition Maritime geographies Oceanic studies: the Pacific and Pacific Rim, and the Indian Ocean in relation to the Atlantic (Trans)hemispheric perspectives Ecologies, including non-human phenomena (animals, environments, technologies, infrastructures) The public Atlantic: memories, museums and memorializations Indigeneity Forms of creolization and mestizaje/métissage Migratory flows, diasporas and settlements Forms of colonization and imperialism Cosmopolitanism and civilizations Urban and non-urban spaces Flows of knowledge: vectors, science, medicine Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by our editorial board and followed by a further critical reading by two anonymous referees (double-anonymized).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HISTORY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Colonialism, slavery, and tradeSocial Sciences20.2%
- Caribbean history, culture, and politicsSocial Sciences10.1%
- Caribbean and African Literature and CultureArts and Humanities5.5%
- Travel Writing and LiteratureArts and Humanities5.2%
- Cuban History and SocietySocial Sciences5%
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesArts and Humanities4.9%
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisArts and Humanities4.8%
- Global Maritime and Colonial HistoriesSocial Sciences4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)History Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 3 |
| Minor | History | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)History Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | History | Zone 2 |
| Minor | History | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
OCLC, America: History and Life, British Humanities Index, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, M L A International BibliographyPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.27Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.46LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.46Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 28OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 103OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.26OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 17.65%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 81,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 675 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 16 | 0 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 24 | 9 | 17 |
| 2023 | 36 | 11 | 27 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6 | 83 |
| 2021 | 63 | 27 | 117 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
194 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 114 days – 444 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (48 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 226 days
- Sample
- 48 articles with submission and acceptance dates (60 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 43%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 26 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Atlantic Studies is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review policy: double-anonymized peer review with initial editorial screening and two anonymous referees. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by our editorial board and followed by a further critical reading by two anonymous referees (double-anonymized).
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1478-8810
- Electronic ISSN
- 1740-4649
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 23, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Atlantic Studies-Global Currents
What CAS zone is Atlantic Studies-Global Currents in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Atlantic Studies-Global Currents is in Zone 3 of History, and in Zone 3 of the minor category History. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of History. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Atlantic Studies-Global Currents?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.3, h-index 28.
How long does peer review take at Atlantic Studies-Global Currents?
Based on the dates recorded on 48 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 194 days (interquartile range 114–444 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 43% (2025). 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 JCR quartile is Atlantic Studies-Global Currents in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of History.
Which databases index Atlantic Studies-Global Currents?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Atlantic Studies-Global Currents is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Atlantic Studies-Global Currents open access, and what is the APC?
Atlantic Studies-Global Currents is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .