Crusades is a biannual journal, founded in 2002 and published by Routledge on behalf of The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. It is devoted to all aspects of crusading activity from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern era and down to modern memories of the subject. It draws together scholarship on all theatres of crusading from its importance in the Latin West to its impact on lands across the Baltic to Africa and from Iberia to the Near East. The journal is open to contributions on Christian, Muslim and Jewish perspectives of the crusades. Our authors range across social, political and military history, theology, law, literature, art, material culture, numismatics and economic history, as well as the memorialization of the crusades. It particularly welcomes submissions on historical sources – narrative, homiletic, documentary – to be made available in trustworthy editions in both European and oriental languages; interpretative contributions are welcomed too. The Journal aims to further diversity of methodology and perspective, and encourages contributions from Early Career Researchers as well as established scholars.
Journal metrics
Citation metrics
0.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.102 (2023) SJR
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Karl Borchardt (University of Würzburg / Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Germany)
Judith Bronstein (University of Haifa, Israel)
Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Damien Carraz (University of Toulouse, France)
Peter Edbury (Cardiff University, UK)
Jaroslav Folda (University of North Carolina, U.S.A.)
Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Philippe Josserand (Nantes University)
Thomas F. Madden (Saint Louis University, U.S.A.)
Mohamad El-Merheb (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Antonio Musarra (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
Helen Nicholson (Cardiff University, UK)
Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading, U.K.)
Kristin Skottki (Bayreuth University, Germany)
Carol Sweetenham (Royal Holloway, University of London / University of Warwick, U.K.)
Abstracting and indexing
Crusades is abstracted/indexed in: Scopus
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Crusades is the official journal of The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE), an international society of scholars founded in 1980. Its members include scholars from across the generations, whose research covers all aspects of the field including theology, law, literature, art, architecture, numismatics, medicine, social history, archaeology as well as cultural, political, and economic themes.
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