Karib

Karib is published by Stockholm University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Caribbean and African Literature and Culture, Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies and Caribbean history, culture, and politics, together about 58.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, journal dedicated to all aspects of research on Caribbean culture. It is an attempt to bring scholars together, strengthen research, provide a platform from which scholars within the field can enter into other international networks and work across disciplinary, institutional, linguistic, and genre barriers. The journal accepts articles in the region’s three major languages: English, Spanish, and French. The scope is cross-disciplinary, with a focus on literature and literary theory. We seek to engage in dialogue with various fields, notably history, anthropology, art, aesthetics, performance studies, cultural studies, and history of ideas, thus covering a wide range of topics within the humanities and social sciences, in order to promote high quality research on contemporary and historical Caribbean topics. Based at the Department of Languages at Uppsala University, the journal seeks to promote Caribbean studies in the Nordic region, but its scope is international and we welcome contributions from all parts of the world. Accepted articles are published on a continuous basis throughout the year and are available online as soon as they are accepted by the Editorial Committee. Considering that the Caribbean is a region with a particularly strong colonial and postcolonial heritage, theoretical issues close to postcolonial studies are at the core of the journal. The Caribbean has been of fundamental importance for the development of various theories rethinking identity and transnationalism, by means of concepts such as hybridity, creolization, the Black Atlantic, to name a few. The region has also been important to rethink the relationship between man and nature in the wake of eco-criticism and to re-conceptualize the very notion of origin, suggesting a new form a radical ontology in philosophy. Cross-cultural encounters – peaceful and violent –, ever changing identities, the agony and creativity of exile, multilingualism, are common themes in Caribbean literature and theory, and we are therefore including them as a part of the journals’ scope for articles. Karib welcomes articles that tap into the development of these lines of thinking. Karib is above all a journal for research articles, but we are also open to publishing short commentaries and/or book-reviews relevant to the scope of the journal.

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Impact

h-index

3OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

2OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 16 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 16 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Stockholm University Press

Country or region

Sweden

Language

English, French

ISSN

2387-6743

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ