Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Digital Humanities Quarterly
ISSN 1938-4122 · Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · Netherlands
Digital Humanities Quarterly: CAS Zone 4 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 24 weeks (community reports); 44 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Digital Humanities Quarterly is published by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations 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 Digital Humanities and Scholarship, Digital Games and Media and Digital and Traditional Archives Management, together about 50.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Welcome to Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to: experimenting with publication formats and the rhetoric of digital authoring co-publishing articles with Literary and Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide using open standards to deliver journal content developing translation services and multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO DHQ publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed materials, including: Scholarly articles, case studies, and field reports Editorials and provocative opinion pieces Experiments in interactive media Reviews of books, web sites, new media art installations, digital humanities systems and tools Materials published in DHQ appear in the Preview area as soon as they are ready, with announcements marking the release of each new issue, roughly at quarterly intervals. We provide answers to frequently asked questions about the journal on our FAQ page. Please contact us for further information.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Julia FlandersPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named India 6, United States 2, United Kingdom 1, Mexico 1 (10 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Digital Humanities and ScholarshipArts and Humanities38.3%
- Digital Games and MediaSocial Sciences6.8%
- Digital and Traditional Archives ManagementArts and Humanities5.4%
- Computational and Text Analysis MethodsSocial Sciences5.4%
- Media, Communication, and EducationSocial Sciences5.1%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science4.2%
- Authorship Attribution and ProfilingComputer Science3%
- Semantic Web and OntologiesComputer Science2.8%
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 | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
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
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher 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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.31LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- h-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 112OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 37LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 874 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 47 | 47 | 6 |
| 2025 | 44 | 44 | 2 |
| 2024 | 49 | 49 | 16 |
| 2023 | 67 | 67 | 43 |
| 2022 | 79 | 79 | 54 |
| 2021 | 65 | 65 | 162 |
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 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous 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-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Article types accepted4
- articlesArticles: Article-length pieces describing original research.Length not stated
- case studiesCase Studies: Detailed analyses of specific projects that contextualize the project within the DH field, and demonstrate its significance for other practitioner…Length not stated
- field reportsField Reports: Reports on digital humanities-related practice from the perspective of a particular localeLength not stated
- reviewsReviews: Reviews of other publications (digital or print), tools, artworks, conferences, and other relevant material.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright
- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Model summary
Unless otherwise noted, the DHQ web site and all DHQ published content are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- Country or region
- Netherlands
- Language
- English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
- ISSN
- 1938-4122
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Digital Humanities Quarterly
What CAS zone is Digital Humanities Quarterly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Digital Humanities Quarterly is in Zone 4 of Literature, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. 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 Digital Humanities Quarterly?
Authors report an average review time of about 24 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 Digital Humanities Quarterly based?
Of the 10 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (6), United States (2) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Digital Humanities Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Digital Humanities Quarterly is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Digital Humanities Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
Digital Humanities Quarterly 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: .