Journal profile · LITERATURE
Textual Practice
ISSN 0950-236X · eISSN 1470-1308 · Taylor & Francis
Textual Practice: CAS Zone 3 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; median 288 days to acceptance (64 articles, last 24 months); 129 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Textual Practice 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 Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics, Contemporary Literature and Criticism and Modernist Literature and Criticism, together about 41.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has been Britain’s principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagements. Today, as customary relations among disciplines and media are questioned and transformed, Textual Practice works at the turning points of theory with politics, history and texts. It is intrigued by the processes through which hitherto marginal cultures of ethnicity and sexuality are becoming conceptually central, and by the consequences of these diverse disturbances for educational and cultural institutions. Click here for a list of Special Issues. Peer Review Policy: All peer review is double anonymous and submissions are typically reviewed by two referees. Turning Points are commissioned and subject to editorial screening. Submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. You cannot ignore TP. Its international cast of contributors, well-known and new, engages today’s theoretical and practical debates from the roots of modernity into post-modernism, from the politics of sexual preference, to the future of the Left, from literature to activism, with the lines crossing and re-crossing.’ - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University 'Textual Practice contains some of the most path-breaking, adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain' - Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester, UK Read full aims and scope
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): LITERATURE
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Literary Theory and Cultural HermeneuticsArts and Humanities17.6%
- Contemporary Literature and CriticismArts and Humanities13.6%
- Modernist Literature and CriticismArts and Humanities10.5%
- Poetry Analysis and CriticismArts and Humanities7.9%
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesArts and Humanities5.2%
- American and British Literature AnalysisArts and Humanities5.1%
- Narrative Theory and AnalysisArts and Humanities4.4%
- Literature: history, themes, analysisArts and Humanities3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Literature Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Literature | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- h-index
- 49OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 337OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.36OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 22.65%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 101LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,571 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 100 | 51 | 576 |
| 2025 | 129 | 60 | 1,333 |
| 2024 | 134 | 67 | 1,309 |
| 2023 | 118 | 53 | 1,499 |
| 2022 | 102 | 43 | 1,136 |
| 2021 | 150 | 54 | 1,131 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
288 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 232 days – 389 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 54 days (64 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 347 days
- Sample
- 64 articles with submission and acceptance dates (239 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
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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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0950-236X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1470-1308
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 40, Issue 8 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Textual Practice
What CAS zone is Textual Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Textual Practice is in Zone 3 of Literature, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Literature. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Textual Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 64 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 288 days (interquartile range 232–389 days). 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 Textual Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Textual Practice is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Textual Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Textual Practice is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .