Italianist

Italianist is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society, Italian Literature and Culture and Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition, together about 58.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Founded in 1981, The Italianist is today one of the leading international journals of Italian Studies and a key point of reference within the field. The journal does not approach Italy as a bounded object of study defined by immovable features of nationhood, but rather as a laboratory for examining wider cultural, historical, linguistic, and political processes and transformations. It is committed to intellectual openness and interdisciplinary exchange and is distinguished by both its conceptual range and its methodological innovation. The Italianist places medieval and early modern philology in productive tension with contemporary critical theory; literary studies with visual and screen cultures; linguistics with sociology and history; and Italian traditions with transnational and global perspectives. In doing so, the journal does not simply respond to the reconfiguration of the Humanities and Modern Languages but contributes to a redefining of Italian Studies. It responds to contemporary institutional pressures and the present conjuncture as opportunities for conceptual innovation and disciplinary renewal rather than symptoms of crisis. Alongside peer-reviewed research articles, the journal offers a set of editorial formats that extend scholarly exchange beyond conventional academic frames. These include interviews with contemporary writers, artists, and intellectuals; concise critical responses to topics of contemporary urgency; and reflections on research trajectories within the field. Together, these strands create a flexible intellectual space attuned to forms of scholarly production that exceed traditional academic boundaries and conventions. Since 2009, the annual Film Issue has consolidated a major international forum for Italian screen studies, expanding its scope to include television, digital media, and global circulation. Alongside the General Issue and the Film Issue, the journal also publishes an annual Themed Issue selected through a competitive process and curated by guest editors. Themed issues respond to timely, emerging, and critical areas of inquiry, including, in recent years, ecocriticism, digital interdisciplinarity, and the Spectral Turn. Publishing in both English and Italian, The Italianist fosters dialogue across linguistic and scholarly communities while addressing an increasingly global readership. Within an evolving landscape of knowledge production and circulation, the journal engages digital modes of dissemination and emerg

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 23, United States 9, Italy 5, France 1, Switzerland 1 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: Academic Search Alumni, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Premier, Advanced Placement Source, Current Abstracts, Genamics Journal Seek, Humanities International Complete, International Bibliography of Periodicals Literature (IBZ), Italinemo, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics and Langauge Behaviour Abstracts, Modern Language Association Bibliography, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, TOC Premier

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.13Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.13Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

53OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.08OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.67%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

22LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

42,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

70%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

148 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

120 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0261-4340

Electronic ISSN

1748-619X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 45, Issue 2 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website