PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies is published by University of Technology, Sydney. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diaspora, migration, transnational identity, Artistic and Creative Research and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, together about 21.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies is a fully peer reviewed journal with two main issues per year, and is published by UTSePress. In some years there may be additional special focus issues. The journal is dedicated to publishing scholarship by practitioners of—and dissenters from—international, regional, area, migration, and ethnic studies. Portal also provides a space for cultural producers interested in the internationalization of cultures. Portal is conceived as a “multidisciplinary venture,” to use Michel Chaouli’s words. That is, Portal signifies “a place where researchers [and cultural producers] are exposed to different ways of posing questions and proffering answers, without creating out of their differing disciplinary languages a common theoretical or methodological pidgin” (2003, p. 57). Our hope is that scholars working in the humanities, social sciences, and potentially other disciplinary areas, will encounter in Portal scenarios about contemporary societies and cultures and their material and imaginative relation to processes of transnationalization, polyculturation, transmigration, globalization, and anti-globalization. Our use of scenario here is drawn from Néstor García Canclini, for whom the term designates “a place where a story is staged” (1995, p. 273). García Canclini’s interest lies in comprehending the staging of stories at “the intercrossings on the borders between countries, in the fluid networks that interconnect towns, ethnic groups, and classes, … the popular and the cultured, the national and the foreign” (1995, p. 273). Such stories indicate some of the many international scenarios that Portal hopes to stage in the future. Portal has built into its editorial protocols a commitment to facilitating dialogue between international studies practitioners working anywhere in the world, and not simply or exclusively in the “North,” “the West” or the “First World.” This fundamental policy is reflected in the broad constituency of our Editorial Board, with members drawn from respected academic and research institutions in many countries and continents. The journal’s commitment to fashioning a genuinely “international” studies rubric is also reflected in our willingness to publish critical and creative work in English as well as in a number of other languages: Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Works cited Chaouli, Michel 2003, ‘The perpetual conflict in cultural studies: an apolog

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Australia 25, United States 7, United Kingdom 4, Mexico 2, Hong Kong, China 1 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.1LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.28LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

42OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.11OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 52 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

University of Technology, Sydney

Country or region

Australia

Language

English

ISSN

1449-2490

Latest issue on the website

Volume 21, Issue 1-2 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
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• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub