About this journal
Aims and scope
Launched in 1989, Exemplaria publishes papers that reconsider the methods and aims of scholarship on the medieval and early modern periods, broadly conceived. Authors are invited to submit work that promotes the journal’s interpretive aims and moves, engages critical theories, or otherwise seeks to sharpen the edges of current intellectual or literary debates. The editors are committed to a rigorous, productive, and strictly anonymous process of peer review, which is usually completed within three months.
1. Editorial and Advisory Boards: We strive to maintain diverse editorial and advisory boards, with the aim of publishing a journal that not only reflects the current breadth of approaches in our interdisciplinary field, but works to cultivate a widened range of voices and work. We actively seek contributors who are diverse with respect to race, gender, academic position, and academic affiliation. The editorial board is formed via internal nominations for replacement when necessary, typically for five-year individual terms. The advisory board is formed via editorial board nominationsfor replacement at two-year intervals; nominations may also be solicited from current advisory board members . The editorial board reads submissions on a rotating basis, not determined by specialization; all editors participate in all decisions to accept or reject articles. Advisory board members may expect to read up to two submissions per year, depending upon submission topics.
2. Review Process: Exemplaria uses an anonymous review process. The editorial board has a strong responsibility to oversee the review process, preserving anonymity on both sides so that reports may be written freely, as well as ensuring the quality of the reports. While we do not share the identities of reviewers, we may share their areas of expertise in order to situate their reports. Editors reserve the right to make final decisions, seek additional reviews, and decline to share unprofessional reviews with authors. Reviewers may be notified of the outcome of the review process upon request.
3. Evaluative Criteria: Exemplaria seeks to publish articles and review essays that sharpen current intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural debates in medieval and early modern studies. We expect articles to make original contributions, advance the use of theory, and be inclusive and diverse in their citations; we therefore ask reviewers to evaluate essays according to these criteria, stated in our review form. Editors periodically review the content of published volumes and strive to redress omitted or underrepresented voices and work.
Routledge HistoryJournal metrics
Usage
- 33K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.474 (2023) SNIP
- 0.184 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 27 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 77 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 22% 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
Editors
- Carissa M. Harris (Temple University, USA) [email protected]
- Shirin A. Khanmohamadi (San Francisco State University, USA) [email protected]
- Charles Samuelson (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) [email protected]
- Joseph Taylor (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA) [email protected]
Book Review Editor
- Hall Bjørnstad (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) [email protected]
Advisory Board
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, USA) [email protected]
- Roland Betancourt (UC Irvine, USA) [email protected]
- Liza Blake (University of Toronto, Canada) [email protected]
- Tekla Bude (Oregon State University, USA) [email protected]
- Christine Chism (UCLA, USA) [email protected]
- Taylor Cowdery (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) [email protected]
- Holly Crocker (University of South Carolina, USA) [email protected]
- Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College, USA) [email protected]
- Lara Dodds (Mississippi State University, USA) [email protected]
- Denis Ferhatovic (Connecticut College) [email protected]
- Marisa Galvez (Stanford University, USA) [email protected]
- Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College, USA) mailto: [email protected]
- Miranda Griffin (University of Cambridge, UK) [email protected]
- Noah Guynn (University of California, Davis, USA) [email protected]
- Emily Houlik-Ritchey (Rice University, USA) [email protected]
- Adin Lears (Virgina Commonwealth University, USA) [email protected]
- Steven Mentz (St. John’s University, USA) [email protected]
- Megan Moore (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) [email protected]
- Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida, USA) [email protected]
- Sif Rikhardsdottir (University of Iceland, Iceand) [email protected]
- Marc Schachter (Durham University, UK) [email protected]
- Christine Varnado (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) [email protected]
- David Wacks (University of Oregon, USA) [email protected]
- Erik Wade (University of Bonn, Germany) [email protected]
- Thomas Ward (United States Naval Academy, USA) [email protected]
- Eliza Zingesser (Columbia University, USA) [email protected]
Trustees
- Patricia Clare Ingham (Indiana University, USA) [email protected]
- Elizabeth Scala (University of Texas, USA) [email protected]
Abstracting and indexing
Exemplaria is included in the following services:
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
British Humanities Index
Current Abstracts
Current Contents - Arts & Humanities
EBSCO Publishing Services
European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH PLUS)
Genamics Journal Seek
Humanities International Complete
Literary Reference Centre
Modern Language Association Bibliographies
Periodicals Index Online
Scopus
Thomson Reuters' Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
TOC Premier
Open access
Exemplaria 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)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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