About this journal
Aims and scope
Areas of Interest to the Journal
- South Asian Literatures
- South Asian Languages
- South Asian Studies
- South Asian Culture
- Comparative Aesthetic
- Literary Theory
- South Asian Diaspora
- Cultural Studies
- Colonial Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Women’s Studies
- Film Studies
- Transcultural Studies
Journal metrics
Usage
- 39K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.922 (2023) SNIP
- 0.170 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 24 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 115 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 15% acceptance rate
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
Founding Editor:
H. B. Kulkarni
Editors Emeriti:
K. D. Verma
P. S. Chauhan
Editor:
Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA
Managing Editor:
Robin E. Field, King’s College, USA
Associate Editors:
Amit. R. Baishya, University of Oklahoma, USA
John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, USA
Maryse Jayasuriya, St Louis University, USA
Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University, USA
Reviews Editor:
Amit R. Baishya, University of Oklahoma, USA
Editorial Advisory Board:
Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Montclair State University, USA
Umme Al-wazedi, Augustana College, USA
Amit Rahul Baishya, University of Oklahoma, USA
Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University, USA
Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia College Chicago, USA
Kavita Daiya, George Washington University, USA
Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch University, Australia
B. P. Giri, Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research, Nepal
Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico, USA
Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University, USA
Priya Kumar, University of Delhi, India
Malashri Lal, Independent Scholar, India
Cynthia Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University, USA
Harveen Mann, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison University, USA
Neloufer de Mel, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University, USA
R. Radhakrishnan, University of California, Irvine, USA
Shazia Rahman, Dayton University, USA
S. Shankar, University of Hawai'i, USA
Alpana Sharma, Wright State University, USA
Amritjit Singh, Ohio University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
South Asian Review is abstracted/indexed in:
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- MLA International Bibliography
- Scopus
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Society information
SALA is an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, and holds its annual meeting concurrently at the MLA Convention host city.
SALA membership includes a year’s subscription to the refereed journal South Asian Review (SAR) as well as the SALA Newsletter, which carries announcements of SALA's two MLA sessions, scholarly activities and accomplishments of its members, new titles in the field, and other valuable information for those interested in South Asian studies. $5.00 of each membership for Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor goes toward SALA’s Graduate Student Fund, which helps support graduate student travel to the annual conference.
Information on how to join SALA is available here: www.southasianliteraryassociation.org/membership/
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