Journal profile
Il Tolomeo
ISSN 1594-1930 · eISSN 2499-5975 · Edizioni Ca’ Foscari · Italy
Il Tolomeo: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 20 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Il Tolomeo is published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, Caribbean and African Literature and Culture and French Literature and Criticism, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Il Tolomeo first saw the light of day in 1995, thanks to the work of a group of postcolonial scholars at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles, reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished original contributions in the fields of francophone, anglophone and lusophone literatures. Il Tolomeo investigates the postcolonial literary phenomenon in all its manifestations, but is particularly interested in contributions which take a comparative, interdisciplinary approach: dialogues between literature and the arts, investigations of hybrid forms such as comic strips and cinema, research which links literary studies with the social sciences, or innovative approaches such as digital and environmental humanities. Throughout its history, Il Tolomeo has been an important point of reference for postcolonial studies in Italy, hosting original writings and interviews with major voices in the anglophone and francophone world (Derek Walcott, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Rita El Khayat, Anthony Phelps, Anita Desai, Christine De Luca, Antonine Maillet, Roland Paret, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and many others). In its new digital open access version, its aim is to continue to reflect the destinies of a burgeoning and extraordinarily innovative disciplinary field, and to offer a space for dialogue between postcolonial writers and scholars. Issues of Il Tolomeo which predate 2016 can be accessed via PHAIDRA (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets), at the following webpage: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/detail/o:458890.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Alessandro CostantiniPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesArts and Humanities17.9%
- Caribbean and African Literature and CultureArts and Humanities13.7%
- French Literature and CriticismArts and Humanities7.7%
- French Literature and Critical TheoryArts and Humanities6.4%
- Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureArts and Humanities5.1%
- Poetry Analysis and CriticismArts and Humanities4.8%
- Italian Literature and CultureArts and Humanities4.8%
- North African History and LiteratureArts and Humanities4.2%
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.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: WorldCat
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
- h-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.13OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 578 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 10 |
| 2024 | 19 | 19 | 8 |
| 2023 | 39 | 39 | 11 |
| 2022 | 39 | 39 | 9 |
| 2021 | 86 | 86 | 5 |
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 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 accepted3
- interviews- interviews (9,000-15,000 characters, spaces included);Length not stated
- reviews- reviews (6,000-8,000 characters, spaces included);Length not stated
- unpublished pieces- unpublished pieces.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics
COPE Ethical Code Model summary
Il Tolomeo is a peer-reviewed scientific journal whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
CC BY license Model summary
This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review + Peer review
Every article published by ECF was accepted for publication by no less than two qualified reviewers as a result of a process of anonymous reviewing (double-blind peer review). The reviewers are independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution. The Journal’s Editors-in-Chief guarantees the proper execution of the peer review process for every article published in the Journal.…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening with Compilatio Model summary
Submitted articles, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers.
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
- Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English, French, Italian
- ISSN
- 1594-1930
- Electronic ISSN
- 2499-5975
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Il Tolomeo
How long does peer review take at Il Tolomeo?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 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.
Which databases index Il Tolomeo?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Il Tolomeo is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Il Tolomeo open access, and what is the APC?
Il Tolomeo is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .