About this journal
Aims and scope
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 scholars should send an inquiry letter to Daniel Shapiro, the Editor, at [email protected].
Journal metrics
Usage
- 21K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.100 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Daniel Shapiro
Guest Editor:
Will H. Corral
Copyeditor:
Jason Weiss
Editorial Assistant:
Daimys García
Advisory Board:
Distinguished:
Lorna Goodison
Edith Grossman (in memoriam)
Nélida Piñon (in memoriam)
Gregory Rabassa (in memoriam)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Members:
Carmen Boullosa
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
Rubén Gallo
Aníbal González
Elizabeth Lowe
Carlos Riobó
Abstracting and indexing
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is abstracted/indexed in:
Film Literature Index
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Humanities International Index
MLA International Bibliography
OCLC
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index® (A&HCI)
Open access
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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2 issues per year
Review 94 (June 2017), guest-edited by author Ernesto Quiñónez, focuses on Latin American and Latino writers affiliated with The City College of New York, CUNY, as alumni and/or faculty. The issue features essays and fiction from a wide selection of writers, as well as a conversation between Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and author Alonso Cueto, and an interview by Jerry W. Carlson with Cuban author Leonardo Padura. This special issue celebrates the rebranding of Review Magazine via Routledge and The City College of New York.
Review 95 (December 2017), guest-edited by scholar and author Deborah Cohn (Indiana University Bloomington), focuses on the reception and legacy of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, Cien años de soledad ( One Hundred Years of Solitude). The issue includes scholarly and creative essays by friends, colleagues, and younger writers whose lives and work have been touched by García Márquez’s novel, as well as texts addressing other dimensions of the author’s development, including his forays into film and his long career as a journalist.
Review 96 (June 2018), guest-edited by scholar/author Aníbal González (Yale University), focuses on Nuevísimo writing from throughout Spanish America, characterized by a breadth of aesthetic approaches and employment of elements including self-fictionalization, critique of nationalism, and interest in other disciplines and genres such as crime and science fiction.
Review 97 (December 2018), guest-edited by scholar Andrew Reynolds (West Texas A & M University), focuses on Rubén Darío and Modernismo Today. Reynolds’s introduction, “The Enduring Scholarly and Creative Legacies of Rubén Darío and Modernismo,” is followed by critical essays; newly translated poems and essays by Darío himself; appraisals of Darío by other masters (Borges, García Lorca, and Neruda); and contemporary texts, as well as original poetry by poets from the region.
Review 99 (December 2019), guest-edited by Waïl Hassan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), explores “Arab Latin America.” The issue compiles a breadth of texts and other materials, beginning with Hassan’s cogent introduction, followed by critical essays by leading scholars on emblematic topics, as well as fiction, poetry, creative essays, crônicas, and interviews featuring writers/artists of Arab background hailing from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru—descendants of immigrants from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
Review 100 (June 2020), guest-edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, with additional consultation by Alfred Mac Adam, compiles essays first published in the journal, from the magazine’s early years to the end of the millennium. The selections bring together contributions by and about many of the region’s most prominent authors as well as by esteemed literary critics. Together these pieces suggest the rich history of Latin American literature in the United States in the twentieth century, provide a panoramic view of that literature and underscore Review’s role in helping to shape it.
Review 101 (December 2020), guest-edited by Suzanne Jill Levine and Alfred Mac Adam, is the second of two retrospective issues featuring essays published in the magazine from its early years to the present. This issue covers the period from 2001 to 2019. The essays compiled here explore a breadth of topics, among them the Latin American city; texts on figures such as Pablo Neruda, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa; memorial pieces on Gregory Rabassa, Alastair Reid, and Rosario Ferré; reflections by various authors; and overviews of key movements and schools.
Review 102 (June 2021), “Digital Brazil: Voices of Resistance,” guest-edited by Elizabeth Lowe (New York University), compiles texts originally produced / circulated via social media, blogs, and other digital platforms, as well as through print media. The contents explore themes relevant to the political, economic, environmental, and social challenges in Brazil today. The cover and inside photographs, by Vincent Catala, visually document individuals, buildings and streets in São Paulo during the Coronavirus pandemic’s terrifying height. The essays and literature in the issue, as discussed in Prof. Lowe’s introduction, include critical essays, respectively, by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey on “Black Brazilian Feminisms,” by Paulo Dutra on “Resistance and Dissidence,” and by Leila Lehnen on “Decolonizing Fictions” in Afrofuturism; as well as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and blogs by a breadth of “voices of resistance.” Among the writers showcased are Fabricio Corsaletti, J.P. Cuenca, the above-mentioned Dutra, Conceição Evaristo, Noemi Jaffe, Fábio Kabral, Djamila Ribeiro, and Cristiane Sobral. In respective memorial pieces, Nélida Piñon and Paula Parisot reflect on the late author Rubem Fonseca. Special Features include poetry and art by Salgado Maranhão and the late Will Barnet; an interview, by Jerry Carlson, of author Senel Paz; and poems by Mariela Dreyfus. The issue concludes with reviews of Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó’s Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa, The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, and of other titles by writers from across the hemisphere
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