Caribbean Quarterly

Caribbean Quarterly is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Caribbean history, culture, and politics, Caribbean and African Literature and Culture and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, together about 68.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Throughout the Caribbean there are groups of men and women who are coming together to learn – to deepen their intellectual interests, to find out through discussion and reading more about themselves, their history, the lands in which they live, the world round about them. This journal is published for these men and women . . . for all men and women who seek after knowledge; to be a bond between them, and to give them information about each other. Caribbean Quarterly (CQ) will aim at accuracy, objectivity, and clean thought, clearly expressed. Above all it seeks to establish and strengthen the tradition of the book and of learning in the Caribbean. Philip Sherlock, co-editor, Caribbean Quarterly , 1.1 (April–June 1949) Caribbean Quarterly (CQ) is one of the oldest periodicals in the English-speaking Caribbean. Regarded as the flagship publication of the University of the West Indies (UWI), it was launched by the then Department of Extra Mural Studies, UWI, in 1949, to be a platform from which research findings and general knowledge could be effectively disseminated within the campus and non-campus territories. Professor Rex Nettleford served as editor of CQ for forty years, until his death in February 2010. CQ is now produced under the umbrella of the Vice Chancellery. CQ concerns itself with all aspects of Caribbean culture, in all its interdisciplinary ramifications. It is an outlet for the publication of results of research into, considered views on, and creative expressions of matters Caribbean. CQ publishes scholarly articles, personal and critical essays, public lectures, poetry, short fiction and book reviews – a lively diversity of types of writing reflecting the diversity of Caribbean culture. We invite original (previously unpublished) submissions on topics which are of general interest and relevance to the Caribbean. All scholarly articles are peer-reviewed: we insist on scholarly rigour, but we also encourage accessibility and discourage excessive use of academic jargon. Our aim is to produce high-quality material that can be understood by well-educated people from any discipline. Overall, we seek to paint a vivid picture of life in one of the most culturally diverse parts of the Western hemisphere, with information on its social and material culture, ethnology, history, peoples, religion and creative arts presented in a refreshingly accessible format. Peer Review Statement All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History

Editor-in-chief Susan CallumPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

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Indexing the journal's website claims

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.12Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

36OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

199OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.09OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

13,000Publisher website · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0008-6495

Electronic ISSN

2470-6302

Society / sponsor

University of the West Indies

Latest issue on the website

Volume 72, Issue 1-2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website