Review Literature and Arts of the Americas

Review Literature and Arts of the Americas is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Latin American Literature Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies and Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America, together about 30.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Founded in 1968, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is the major forum in the United States for contemporary Latin American and Caribbean writing in English and English translation; it also covers Canadian writing and the visual and performing arts in the Americas. Review first brought the work of Latin American writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa to critical attention in the United States, and they were followed by numerous other important figures. Translators Edith Grossman, Gregory Rabassa, and Margaret Sayers Peden are among those who have contributed to Review . Issues of the magazine focus on specific countries, regions, or on more abstract themes such as urban voices, women’s writing, or Latin American/Latino performing arts. Review has regularly included selections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; book reviews of newly translated titles; profiles of visual artists; and essays exploring currents in music and the performing arts. Review has undergone various transformations, in response to cultural and economic currents over the last 36 years. Founded in 1968 as a compilation of previously published reviews of titles by Latin American authors, in the 1970s it turned to publishing special-focus issues on individual Latin American writers, including Borges, Neruda, and Paz. In the 1980s, Review was reconfigured as a high-design publication with substantial coverage of the visual and performing arts, broadening its scope to attract a more general readership. This trend continued into the 1990s when the magazine began publishing more literature and arts from the non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean. And in 2003, the magazine’s title was changed from Review: Latin American Literature and Arts to its current one. Since Review 68 (pan-Caribbean writing and arts, June 2004), the journal has included scholarly research articles in addition to its regular content, and has been published online as well as in a print edition. These developments have expanded the journal’s editorial scope and helped Review reach the greatest possible number of scholars and students of Latin American, Caribbean, and comparative literatures as well as general readers across the globe.Submissions are generally by invitation. Peer Review Statement: All submitted research articles undergo an initial editor screening, followed by double-anonymized peer review with at least two independent referees. For further information, writers and

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LITERARY REVIEWS

Editor-in-chief Daniel ShapiroPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, Brazil 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

OCLC, Film Literature Index, Hispanic American Periodicals Index, Humanities International Index, MLA International Bibliography, RILM Abstracts of Music LiteraturePublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

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5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

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CiteScore 2026-06

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CiteScore (publisher) 2025

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SJR 2026-06

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SJR (publisher) 2025

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SNIP 2026-06

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SNIP (publisher) 2025

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h-index

15OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

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Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

5LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

19,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

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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

0890-5762

Electronic ISSN

1743-0666

Latest issue on the website

Volume 58, Issue 1 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website