Journal profile · LITERATURE
British and American Studies
ISSN 1224-3086 · eISSN 2457-7715 · Editura Universității de Vest · Romania
British and American Studies: CAS Zone 4 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 2 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
British and American Studies is published by Editura Universității de Vest 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 Contemporary Literature and Criticism, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Themes in Literature Analysis, together about 24.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory and Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
B.A.S. – British and American Studies is an open access, yearly, peer-reviewed* academic journal, whose main aim is to promote new scholarship, to facilitate the exchange of information related to research findings in the general fields of literatures in English, English language as well as culture in the English speaking countries. The journal welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions that advance the understanding of established and new approaches and issues, significant to the academic community interested in the English-speaking world, in domains like, but not limited to: the theory and history of literature, literary criticism, comparative literary studies, narrative and memory, literature and film, stylistics the theory and history of linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, text and discourse analysis, world Englishes, English as a lingua franca, EFL and ESP, translation studies cultural phenomena, hegemony of English speaking countries cultural models, manifestations of ethnicity, media and communication B.A.S. – British and American Studies also aims to promote interdisciplinary studies, cross-disciplinary topics being welcomed, as long as that their relevance is clear. Since the journal appears in both print and online format, published contributions offer their authors high visibility and rapid access to a broad readership. *For details on the peer-reviewing process see the Peer Review section
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): LITERATURE
Editor-in-chief Hortensia PârlogPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Romania 4, United Kingdom 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Contemporary Literature and CriticismArts and Humanities11.3%
- Language, Metaphor, and CognitionPsychology7.7%
- Themes in Literature AnalysisArts and Humanities5.9%
- Translation Studies and PracticesArts and Humanities5.3%
- Literature: history, themes, analysisArts and Humanities4.8%
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesArts and Humanities4.5%
- Lexicography and Language StudiesArts and Humanities4.5%
- Narrative Theory and AnalysisArts and Humanities4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.07OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 62.34%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 27LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 330 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 26 | 26 | 4 |
| 2023 | 33 | 33 | 3 |
| 2022 | 42 | 42 | 51 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
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 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 Model summary
B.A.S. British and American Studies publishes fully open access articles, which means that all articles are available to all Internet users, without restrictions, immediately after their online publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
No APC Model summary
B.A.S. British and American Studies does not charge any article submission and processing fees.
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
- Editura Universității de Vest
- Country or region
- Romania
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1224-3086
- Electronic ISSN
- 2457-7715
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about British and American Studies
What CAS zone is British and American Studies in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, British and American Studies is in Zone 4 of Literature, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Literature. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at British and American Studies?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 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.
Where are the editorial board members of British and American Studies based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Romania (4) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index British and American Studies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, British and American Studies is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is British and American Studies open access, and what is the APC?
British and American Studies 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, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .