Middle Eastern Literatures

Middle Eastern Literatures is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Islamic Studies and History, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies and Middle East Politics and Society, together about 46.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Middle Eastern Literatures is a forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures from Late Antiquity until the present. We publish critical studies and translations of literature and other cultural works encoded in language (such as films, songs, graphic novels, memoirs, etc.). The journal’s linguistic scope is wide and encompasses works composed in, for example, the Persian, Turkish, post-Biblical and modern Hebrew, Kurdish, Urdu, Arabic, and Amazigh languages, as well as the colonial and diasporic languages through which Middle Eastern experiences have been mediated. By bringing diverse texts and disciplines into dialogue we seek to establish new connections across geographies and time periods, to forge theoretical languages, grounded in the region’s epistemologies, and to foster a comparative literature beyond the main reference point of Euroamerica. The journal aims to broaden available networks of communication within and across relevant fields, and establish new ones. We thus seek research that identifies literature and culture of the Middle East not just as subjects of study, but as locations of knowledge with relevance beyond any one academic discipline or field of thought. We aim to foster an active exchange of approaches, perspectives, and knowledge from across languages, and will regularly publish book reviews and bibliographies in support of that effort. We also welcome translations of important literary texts from the above languages, accompanied by a brief introduction, which gives details about the work, its author(s) and translator(s), and any scholarly attention that it has received thus far. Middle Eastern Literatures is committed to helping early-career and precariously employed scholars, as well as researchers located in the Global South. To that end we are happy to work with authors to ensure excellent ideas are realized in print, help navigate the process of academic publishing, give insightful and appropriate feedback, and to publish works in a timely manner. We are committed to reviewing submitted articles within 3 months. Peer Review Statement All submissions to Middle Eastern Literatures are subject to a rigorous peer-review process. Submissions are usually first read by one or more of the editors and are then passed on to two anonymous reviewers who may be members of the editorial board, the international advisory board, or external specialists.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LITERATURE

Editor-in-chief C. Ceyhun ArslanPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

British Humanities Index, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, Sociological Abstracts, Social Planning/Policy & Development AbstractsPublisher 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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.13Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

18OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.13OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.78%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

23LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

1,980Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Downloads per year (publisher)

21,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

23%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

50 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

95 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

24 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1475-262X

Electronic ISSN

1475-2638

Latest issue on the website

Volume 28, Issue 2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website