Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences

We give you the scuttlebutt on academic journals—aiding you in selecting the right journal for publication—in reviews that are sometimes snarky, sometimes lengthy, always helpful. Written by Princeton University graduate students and Wendy Laura Belcher.

Journals Reviewed

The following 110+ journals (in alphabetical order) are reviewed on this blog (based on the advice in Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success):

  1. Advances in Group Processes
  2. African American Review
  3. American Anthropologist (stub)
  4. American Ethnologist
  5. American Journal of Philology
  6. American Journal of Sociology
  7. American Political Science Review
  8. American Quarterly
  9. American Sociological Review
  10. Applied Linguistics
  11. Anthropological Theory (stub)
  12. Anthropology Quarterly
  13. Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
  14. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies
  15. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
  16. Black Scholar, The
  17. boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture
  18. Callaloo
  19. Camera Obscura
  20. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
  21. Comparative Literature
  22. Comparative Literature Studies
  23. Critical Inquiry
  24. Cultural Anthropology
  25. Cultural Critique (stub)
  26. diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism
  27. Dickens Studies Annual (stub)
  28. differences: a journal of feminist studies (stub)
  29. Disability Studies Quarterly (stub)
  30. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
  31. Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
  32. Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  33. Eighteenth-Century Life
  34. Eighteenth-Century Studies (stub)
  35. ELH (English Literary History) (stub)
  36. Essays in Romanticism
  37. Essays in French Literature and Culture
  38. Ethnicities (stub)
  39. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
  40. French Forum
  41. French Review
  42. French Studies
  43. Gender and Society
  44. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (stub)
  45. GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies
  46. Holocaust and Genocide Studies (stub)
  47. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
  48. Identities (stub)
  49. International Journal of Science Education (A)
  50. ITYOPIS Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (NEAJ) (stub)
  51. Journal of African American History
  52. Journal of Africana Religions
  53. Journal of American History
  54. Journal of Black Studies
  55. Journal of Japanese Studies
  56. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (stub)
  57. Journal of Marriage and Family
  58. Journal of Modern Literature
  59. Journal of Moral Theology
  60. Online Social Networks and Media
  61. Journal of Politics
  62. Journal of Postcolonial Writing
  63. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
  64. Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
  65. Journal of the American Musicological Society
  66. Journal of the Society for American Music
  67. Journal of Women’s History
  68. Latino Studies
  69. L’Esprit Creatur
  70. Linguistic Typology
  71. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief
  72. MELUS (Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States)
  73. Mindfulness
  74. MLN (Modern Language Studies)
  75. Modern & Contemporary France
  76. Modern Philology
  77. Modernism/modernity
  78. Modernist Cultures
  79. Music and Letters
  80. Music Theory Spectrum
  81. Narrative
  82. Nineteenth Century Literature (stub)
  83. Nineteenth-Century French Studies
  84. Oxford Literary Review (stub)
  85. Philosophy and Literature
  86. PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association)
  87. Political & Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) (stub)
  88. Politics and Gender (stub)
  89. Politics, Groups, and Identities
  90. Public Culture
  91. Psychological Bulletin
  92. Race and Class
  93. Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature
  94. Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
  95. Representations
  96. Romance Notes
  97. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
  98. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
  99. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
  100. Social Forces
  101. Social Studies of Science
  102. Social Text
  103. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
  104. SubStance
  105. Theology and Sexuality
  106. Transforming Anthropology
  107. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (stub)
  108. Victorian Literature and Culture (stub)
  109. Victorian Review (stub)
  110. Victorian Studies (stub)
  111. Victorians Institute Journal
  112. Western History Quarterly
  113. Women in French Studies
  114. Yale French Studies

Journals Needing a Post on This Site as of September 2022

  • New Literary History (#1 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Modern Language Quarterly (#8 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (#9 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Modern Fiction Studies  (MFS) (#10 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (#11 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Contemporary Literature (#15 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (#17 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (#18 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)
  • Marvels & Tales (#20 journal in literature according to Google Metrics in 2019)