Journal profile
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
ISSN 2689-2596 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · United States
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 36 weeks (community reports); 28 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: This journal is not accepting submissions at this time. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is published by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Japanese History and Culture, Asian Culture and Media Studies and Comics and Graphic Narratives, together about 66.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cultural Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
About JAMS: The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is an open-access journal dedicated to providing an ethical, peer-reviewed space for academics, students, and independent researchers examining the field of anime, manga, cosplay, and fandom studies to share their research with others. JAMS is peer reviewed by scholars with experience in these areas. The goal of JAMS is to explore anime as an art form and bring visibility to the deeper meanings, understandings, and/or cultural significance of anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms. The use of “anime” as a descriptor in all principles includes manga, cosplay, and its fandoms.Please view our Author Guidelines before submitting your piece. The Journal of Anime and Manga StudiesISSN 2689-2596 Aims and Scope: Who is the audience for the journal? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is dedicated to the scholarly analysis of anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandom surrounding these areas for researchers and those interested in anime and its culture. As an open access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities. JAMS hopes to forge connections with anime fans, scholars, and higher education. Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing Statement All articles published in JAMS are licensed with an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) , unless another CC license is specified. Authors may contact JAMS if they wish to have a different Creative Commons License applied to their work before publication. As JAMS is an open-access journal, authors must be willing to publish their material with a Creative Commons License. This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.Publishing with these licenses does not constitute a transfer of the copyright by the Author. The Author retains all rights to their work, including but not limited to, the right: To reproduce and distribute the Work, and to authorize others toreproduce and distribute the Work, in any format; To post a version of the Work in an institutional repository or the Author’spersonal or departmental web page Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper (Preprint, Author’s Accepted Manuscript, orPublished artic
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Japanese History and CultureSocial Sciences27%
- Asian Culture and Media StudiesSocial Sciences25%
- Comics and Graphic NarrativesArts and Humanities14.2%
- Cinema and Media StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
- Cinema History and CriticismArts and Humanities3.9%
- Ethics, Aesthetics, and ArtArts and Humanities2.9%
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative FictionArts and Humanities2.5%
- Digital Games and MediaSocial Sciences2%
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
CrossrefPublisher 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
- 4OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.18OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 92 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 19 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 5 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 | 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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 36 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 36 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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-NC | |
| 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)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 5
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,500 words
- Reference style
- Chicago
Article types accepted4
- articlesArticles Anime and Luxury Fashion: Studio Ghibli and Loewe’s Unorthodox Brand MerchandizingLength not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews Book Review of Anime's Knowledge CulturesLength not stated
- conference reportsConference Reports JAMS@AX 2025 Conference ReportLength not stated
- syllabiSyllabi Tolerating Monsters: Challenging Extremism Through Animated StorytellingLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access
- Authorship
Guidelines for Submission Model summary
Please review and follow our Guidelines for Submission before submitting!
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Principles documentation Model summary
Please visit our About the Journal page to read out full principles documentation.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing Statement
All articles published in JAMS are licensed with an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) , unless another CC license is specified. Authors may contact JAMS if they wish to have a different Creative Commons License applied to their work before publication. As JAMS is an open-access journal, authors must be willing to publish their material with a Creative Commons License. This…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing Statement
All articles published in JAMS are licensed with an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) , unless another CC license is specified. Authors may contact JAMS if they wish to have a different Creative Commons License applied to their work before publication. As JAMS is an open-access journal, authors must be willing to publish their material with a Creative Commons License. This…
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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2689-2596
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 6, Issue 2 (2025)
- 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 Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
How long does peer review take at Journal of Anime and Manga Studies?
Authors report an average review time of about 36 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Anime and Manga Studies?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≥ 5; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,500 words; Reference style: Chicago. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Journal of Anime and Manga Studies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of Anime and Manga Studies open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 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: .