Journal profile
Manuscript and Text Cultures
ISSN 2752-3462 · eISSN 2752-3470 · Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures · United Kingdom
Manuscript and Text Cultures: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 36 weeks (community reports); 7 articles in 2025.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2024 (Volume 3, Issue 1): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Manuscript and Text Cultures is published by Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Classical Studies and Philology, Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books and Medieval Literature and History, together about 44.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) is the journal of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) at The Queen's College in the University of Oxford. The journal is committed to publishing two issues per year, including one special issue dedicated to a specific research question. The journal welcomes articles that are at once specialised and interdisciplinary, exploring how knowledge and meaning are shaped and sustained by material conditions, past and present. It encourages submissions and creative ideas from authors willing to explore the benefits of digital presentation of research. The journal aims to be a platform for international researchers to engage in close dialogue across their areas of expertise and inform each other about approaches and theories developed in their various subject areas. It seeks to generate discussions that cross subject boundaries and contribute to the theoretical understanding of material text cultures and their impact on knowledge production in global literate societies. With its multidisciplinary approach, crossing traditional academic divisions, MTC endeavours to explore the deep structures of human behaviour in material knowledge production. MTC is an open access journal, and all content is freely available under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means, in particular, that anyone can freely read, copy, download, translate, and redistribute articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors. Registered subscribers to MTC become Associate Members of CMTC. Associate Members are entitled to propose workshops and conferences related to pre-modern manuscript and epigraphic studies that will be hosted at CMTC. In addition, Associate Members can propose new themes for upcoming issues of MTC and nominate themselves as issue editors. Associate Membership subscriptions to CMTC and back issues of MTC are available for purchase at the University of Oxford Online Store.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Classical Studies and PhilologyArts and Humanities19.4%
- Libraries, Manuscripts, and BooksArts and Humanities17.6%
- Medieval Literature and HistoryArts and Humanities7.4%
- Classical Antiquity StudiesSocial Sciences6.5%
- Chinese history and philosophySocial Sciences6.5%
- Biblical Studies and InterpretationArts and Humanities4.6%
- Ancient Near East HistoryArts and Humanities4.6%
- Ancient Egypt and ArchaeologyArts and Humanities3.7%
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
- 2OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.7OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 46 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 22 |
| 2023 | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 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-SA | |
| 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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Model summary
Manuscript and Text Cultures is an Open Access journal. The authors of the articles accepted for publication retain copyright for their works, while granting Manuscript and Text Cultures the non-exclusive right to publish them online and in print under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. This means, in particular, that the readers of the journal can freely read, copy,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
The articles published in MTC are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
All submitted articles undergo initial editorial screening and double-blind peer review, with reviewers selected amongst scholars in the respective field. After acceptance, the author will be asked to revise the article in line with the referees’ suggestions. Articles that seriously fail to follow the stylesheet will be returned for correction. The article should be proof-read by the author before…
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
- Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISSN
- 2752-3462
- Electronic ISSN
- 2752-3470
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2024)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- 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
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Manuscript and Text Cultures
How long does peer review take at Manuscript and Text Cultures?
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.
Which databases index Manuscript and Text Cultures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Manuscript and Text Cultures is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Manuscript and Text Cultures open access, and what is the APC?
Manuscript and Text Cultures 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: .