Journal profile
Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures
ISSN 2421-5503 · University of Milan · Italy
Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 45 weeks (community reports); 5 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures is published by University of Milan. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Medieval Literature and History, Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies and Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books, together about 58.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Classics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Diamond Open Access journal Interfaces opens an interdisciplinary and multilingual forum for the study of medieval European literatures. These literatures are broadly conceived as the products of the interconnected textual cultures which flourished between Late Antiquity and the Renaissance in a region extending from the North Atlantic to the Eastern Mediterranean. Interfaces envisages the study of the textual culture of medieval Europe as situated at the intersection of a number of modern disciplines, including history, literature, philology, codicology, philosophy, sociolinguistics, and theology. Contributions are invited which cross linguistic or disciplinary boundaries in the recognition that the vitality of medieval texts in present-day scholarship and culture demands a space not confined by single philologies, national research traditions, confessions, or disciplinary canons. Interfaces strives to combine methodological questioning of hermeneutic and didactic practices with the opening up of new common themes, new connections between literatures, and new transdisciplinary conceptualisations of the modern understanding of medieval literatures, including regional and global challenges to claims of European unity. It is the ambition of Interfaces to publish the best new scholarship which will contribute to a redefining of how the medieval textual heritage of Europe is read, researched, taught and disseminated in the 21st century. European medieval civilization – of which Greek, Hebrew, Slavonic, and Arabic textual cultures form an integral but often neglected part – will continue to be an important source of cultural identity in a globalised world and the global perspectives of the 21st century impel us to ask new questions of the medieval past. The changing forms and technologies of literature and historical writing in the present also urges us to engage with pre-modern writing in new ways. The texts transmitted to us from the Middle Ages and how we read them are a crucial site for negotiating the relationship between modernity and the past. Interfaces promotes new types of high quality scholarship as well as make the case for the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic value of the literatures of a broadly conceived medieval Europe. As a peer-reviewed, non-profit, multilingual, open access journal, Interfaces also forms part of a new democratic and efficient research culture within the Humanities. The journal will regularly feature thematic issues
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Denmark 4, Israel 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Medieval Literature and HistoryArts and Humanities28.4%
- Historical, Literary, and Cultural StudiesArts and Humanities20%
- Libraries, Manuscripts, and BooksArts and Humanities9.7%
- Medieval European Literature and HistoryArts and Humanities7.7%
- Digital Humanities and ScholarshipArts and Humanities4.5%
- Classical Studies and PhilologyArts and Humanities3.2%
- Renaissance Literature and CultureArts and Humanities3.2%
- Byzantine Studies and HistoryArts and Humanities2.6%
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
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
- 2OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 54 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 | 2 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 4 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| 2021 | 11 | 11 | 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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 45 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 45 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Editorial review, Double 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, CC BY-SA | |
| 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 websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
[The present document is based on: Kleinert, Sabine, and Elizabeth Wager. "Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010." Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Edited by Tony Mayer and Nicholas Steneck. Singapore: World Scientific, 2011. 317–28. Ch…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Attribution - Share alike 4.0 International License Model summary
Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). Authors retain copyright of their work. The CC BY-SA 4.0 licence allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, as long as the orig…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Interfaces provides immediate open access to its content on the principles that publicly funded research must be freely accessible to the public and that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and fosters progress. Interfaces is a Diamond Open Access journal and does not charge either submission or publication fees nor article-processing expenses. Publishe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Blind peer review Model summary
Each submitted manuscript that passes the preliminary review by the Editors-in-Chief and the Editorial Board is generally reviewed by at least two external reviewers under a double-blind peer review process where both the reviewers and the authors are kept anonymous. Reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on its originality, scholarly relevance, soundness of methodology, solidity of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
Editors have a duty to act promptly in case of errors and misconducts, both proven and alleged. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers. In case such as errors in articles or in the publication process, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, appropriate steps will be taken, following the recommendations, guidelines and flowcharts from di COPE. Corrections will happen with due pro…
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
- University of Milan
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- Spanish, Italian, English, French, German
- ISSN
- 2421-5503
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures
How long does peer review take at Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures?
Authors report an average review time of about 45 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 Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 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 Denmark (4) and Israel (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures open access, and what is the APC?
Interfaces A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .