Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics

Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics is published by Walter de Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration, Migration, Refugees, and Integration and Central European national history, together about 22.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics is a peer-reviewed journal published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Charles University.It is committed to exploring divergent scholarly opinions, research and theories of current international academic experts, and is a forum for discussion and hopes to encourage free-thinking and debate among academics, young researchers and professionals over issues of importance to the politics of identity and memory as well as the political dimensions of language policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. The journal is indexed with and included in Google Scholar, EBSCO, CEEOL and SCOPUS.We encourage research articles that employ qualitative or quantitative methodologies as well as empirical historical analyses regarding, but not limited to, the following issues:Trends in nationalist development, whether historical or contemporaryPolicies regarding national and international institutions of memory as well as investigations into the creation and/or dissemination of cultural memoryThe implementation and political repercussions of language policies in various regional and global contextsThe formation, cohesion and perseverance of national or regional identity along with the relationships between minority and majority populationsThe role ethnicity plays in nationalism and national identityHow the issue of victimhood contributes to national or regional self-perceptionPriority is given to issues pertaining to the 20th and 21st century political developmentsWhile our focus is on empirical articles, our scope remains open to exceptional theoretical works (especially if they incorporate empirical research), book reviews and translations.Rejection Rate:70%Articles must adhere to the journal’s editorial policy and formal guidelines (including author-date Chicago Style). All manuscripts must undergo a double-blind peer review in line with the journal standards. Typically, decisions will be made and applicants will be notified within four months of submission. Accepted articles are not subject to any article processing charges (APC) and are published free of charge for the authors.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History

Editor-in-chief Hana KubátováPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 13%); most named Czechia 6, Mainland China 1, Germany 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

1.3Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.68LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

13OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

18OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.24OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

2570-5857

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website