Journal profile
Literatura Ludowa
ISSN 0024-4708 · eISSN 2544-2872 · Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze · Poland
Literatura Ludowa: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 5 weeks (community reports); 24 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Literatura Ludowa is published by Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies, European Linguistics and Anthropology and Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, together about 44.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture / Literatura Ludowa is the quarterly Open Access academic journal published by The Polish Ethnological Society. Intended to be both international in its scope and interdisciplinary in approach, the Journal provides a forum for wide-ranging, in-depth discussion on historical and contemporary forms of folklore as well as popular and vernacular culture. The journal is open to scholars representing various disciplines as well as interdisciplinary approaches; it publishes articles pertaining to a broad spectrum of subjects in the following fields: Folklore research (e.g. forms of historical and contemporary oral, musical, dance folklore; traditional beliefs and rituals and their contemporary transformations); Literature studies (e.g. connections between written literature and oral literature, genres and forms of popular literature, non-professional literature), Ethnology / Cultural anthropology (e.g. issues pertaining to identity, social structure, ethnic/national/religious conflicts, folk and non-professional art), Research on intangible cultural heritage (e.g. types of heritage and the problems with defining it, protecting and maintaining heritage, cultural tourism), Religion studies (e.g. mythology, forms of folk/vernacular religiosity, new religious movements, contemporary ethnic and pagan religions), Ethnolinguistics (e.g. genres of utterances and text patterns, elements of linguistic image of the world), Cultural studies (e.g. fan studies, game studies, sound studies), Performance studies and communication studies (e.g. analysing historical and contemporary performances, vernacular practices connected with digital media). We welcome original and valuable texts written both by experienced authors affiliated by academic institutions and by independent and/or beginner scholars, including post-graduate and graduate students. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture. Literatura Ludowa welcomes contributions featuring theoretical analyses and case studies as well as articles addressing the ethnographical findings and fieldwork experience or academic reviews of new publications connected with the thematic scope of our journal (books, exhibition catalogues, records, multimedia materials). Regardless of the planned and published monographic issues, we constantly invite submissions of texts on topics related to the areas indicated above.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Piotr GrochowskiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 7, France 1, Canada 1, New Zealand 1, Czechia 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature StudiesArts and Humanities21.6%
- European Linguistics and AnthropologySocial Sciences15.4%
- Cultural and Sociopolitical StudiesArts and Humanities7.8%
- Central European Literary StudiesSocial Sciences6.4%
- Themes in Literature AnalysisArts and Humanities5.7%
- Polish Historical and Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences5.1%
- Musicology and Musical AnalysisArts and Humanities4.3%
- Historical and Cultural Studies of PolandArts and Humanities4.3%
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
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
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.13OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 278 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 11 |
| 2025 | 24 | 24 | 19 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 8 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 13 |
| 2022 | 45 | 45 | 3 |
| 2021 | 43 | 43 | 10 |
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 5 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer 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 | |
| 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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Reference style
- APA
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Original work, not AI-generated, not previously published, not under consideration elsewhere. Model summary
I declare that the submitted text is an original work of the author(s), has not been generated using AI tools, has not been previously published and is not submitted to another journal or edited volume.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Non-exclusive CC BY 4.0 license to the publisher (Polish Ethnological Society). Model summary
The authors give the publisher (Polish Ethnological Society) non-exclusive license CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The license covers the use of the work in the following fields: recording of a Work / subject of related rights; reproduction (multiplication) of the Work / subject related rights by the means of print and digital technique (ebook, audiobook); circulating copie…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture / Literatura Ludowa is an Open Access journal published under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-ND) which means that all content is freely available without charge to users: private people and institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior pe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Articles published in the Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture. Literatura Ludowa are reviewed in the double-blind review mode (the reviewing procedure takes place in accordance with the principles of confidentiality and is mutually anonymous). By submitting the article to the editorial board, the author consents to the reviewing process. The preliminary assessment is made by the editors of the…
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
- Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English, Russian, Polish
- ISSN
- 0024-4708
- Electronic ISSN
- 2544-2872
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 69, Issue 3-4 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Literatura Ludowa
How long does peer review take at Literatura Ludowa?
Authors report an average review time of about 5 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 Literatura Ludowa?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≤ 6; Reference style: APA. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Literatura Ludowa based?
Of the 12 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Poland (7), France (1) and Canada (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Literatura Ludowa?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Literatura Ludowa is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Literatura Ludowa open access, and what is the APC?
Literatura Ludowa 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: .