Journal profile · Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
Crossings
ISSN 2040-4344 · eISSN 2958-3179 · Intellect Publishers · Bangladesh
Crossings: subscription journal; no APC; review about 32 weeks (community reports); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Crossings is published by Intellect Publishers. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diaspora, migration, transnational identity, Migration and Exile Studies and Migration, Refugees, and Integration, together about 52.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal designed to reflect the increasing interest in English and Cultural Studies, Applied Linguistics, and English Language Teaching and Acquisition, and to interact with the numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Crossings has an inclusive approach towards analyses of literary texts and their relevance to lived and textual cultures, the mass media, language and representation, to studies in Applied Linguistics, and to the conception and implementation of newer modes, methods and strategies of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), or Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
Editor-in-chief Shamsad MortuzaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Bangladesh 7, United States 2, United Kingdom 1, Australia 1, Malaysia 1 (13 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identitySocial Sciences21.1%
- Migration and Exile StudiesSocial Sciences16.9%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences14.3%
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesArts and Humanities5%
- Memory, History, Trauma, IdentityArts and Humanities4.2%
- Cinema History and CriticismArts and Humanities3.7%
- Cultural Identity and RepresentationArts and Humanities3%
- Migration and Labor DynamicsSocial Sciences2.5%
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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | Q2 | 600/1434 | — |
| Anthropology | Q3 | 307/536 | — |
| Demography | Q4 | 106/140 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
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
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.07OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 290 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 1 | 52 |
| 2025 | 17 | 0 | 117 |
| 2024 | 15 | 3 | 142 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5 | 122 |
| 2022 | 20 | 12 | 141 |
| 2021 | 19 | 0 | 148 |
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 32 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review
- Publication ethics PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
Crossings: A Journal of English Studies is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles and book reviews. It adheres to the publication ethics elaborated below.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review PEER REVIEW POLICY
All research articles in this journal undergo editorial screening and double-blind peer reviews.
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
- Intellect Publishers
- Country or region
- Bangladesh
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2040-4344
- Print ISSN
- 2071-1107
- Electronic ISSN
- 2958-3179
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 16, Issue 1 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Crossings
How long does peer review take at Crossings?
Authors report an average review time of about 32 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 Crossings based?
Of the 13 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Bangladesh (7), United States (2) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Crossings?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Crossings is indexed in Scopus.
Is Crossings open access, and what is the APC?
Crossings is a subscription journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .