Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal operating at the crossroads of contemporary work in the humanities and social sciences in the following areas of research, theory and politics:
• Theories of colonialism, settler colonialism, occupation, and postcolonialism • The histories, impact, and long-term effects of imperialism and colonialism on all aspects of society • The role of culture in the operation of imperialism and in the formations of national resistance • Contemporary Marxist philosophy and related cultural theory • The economics of neo-colonialism and neoliberalism and their effects on the global South • Liberation struggles, past and ongoing • The political and cultural struggles of Indigenous, “fourth-world”, and nomadic peoples • The philosophy and theory of indigeneity • Genocide, conflict intervention and resolution, human rights and humanitarian ethics • Contemporary slavery, child soldiers, refugees, camps and detention centres • Diaspora, migration, immigration • Ecological imperialism, violence, and activist counter-strategies • The role of religion and culture in contemporary political formations • Philosophies of religion and secularism • Cultural and global issues in law, colonial law, occupier law • The contemporary politics of race, caste and ethnicity; indigeneity; gender and sexuality • Languages, especially “minor” languages, and translation • Philosophy of translation and translation theory • Theoretical, philosophical, and analytical questions of postcolonial and world literatures, art, photography, cinema and music. ( Note: in general Interventions does not accept articles that offer analysis of a single novel, story, or film, unless the study uses the individual work as a way into discussing wider social, political, historical, literary, philosophical or theoretical questions.)
Interventions is indexed in the Clarivate Analytics Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indices.
Peer Review Policy All peer review is double anonymized and submissions are typically reviewed by two referees. Submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Journal metrics
Usage
160K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.720 (2023) SNIP
0.358 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
81 days avg. from submission to first
decision
34 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
39% acceptance rate
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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.
Special Issues Editor and Assistant to the Editor: Gabriel Quigley - New York University, USA
Consultant Editors: Arjun Appadurai - New York University, USA Derek Attridge - University of York, UK Homi K. Bhabha - Harvard University, USA EllekeBoehmer - University of Oxford, UK Timothy Brennan - University of Minnesota, USA Rosinka Chaudhuri - Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India Rey Chow - Duke University, USA Carolyn Cooper - University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Elizabeth DeLoughrey - University of California, Los Angeles, USA Nicholas Dirks –New York Academy of Sciences, Berkeley University, USA ArifDirlik - † Simon Gikandi - Princeton University, USA David Theo Goldberg - University of California, Irvine, USA Stephen Howe - University of Bristol, UK Lyn Innes - University of Kent, UK Rita Kothari –AshokaUniversity , India David Lloyd - University of California, Riverside, USA Achille Mbembe - Wits Institute for Social and EconomicResearch, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Ritu Menon - Women Unlimited Press, New Delhi, India Sandro Mezzadra - Università di Bologna, Italy Parvati Nair - Queen Mary, University of London, UK Sarah Nuttall - Wits Institute for Social and EconomicResearch,University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Benita Parry - † Mary Louise Pratt - New York University, USA Ato Quayson - Stanford University, USA Bruce Robbins - Columbia University, USA Ella Shohat - New York University, USA Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Columbia University, USA Ngugiwa Thiong’o - University of California, Irvine, USA Gauri Viswanathan - Columbia University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database; Clarivate Analytics Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indices; CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Index Islamicus; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; International Political Science Abstracts; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; MLA International Bibliography; OCLC; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts.
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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
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