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Journals for “Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism”
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Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakespeare Quarterly Oxford University Press · United States | 96% | 43.6 | #24,770 | 201 | 5% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Cahiers Élisabéthains A Journal of English Renaissance Studies SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 94% | 35.7 | #33,231 | 318 | 26% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare UMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 100% | 23.9 | #48,203 | 64 | 91% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Shakespeare Routledge · United Kingdom | 85% | 41.7 | #26,585 | 324 | 19% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Borrowers and Lenders The Journal of Shakespeare Appropriations | 83% | 40.3 | #28,075 | 396 | 91% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Shakespeare bulletin Johns Hopkins University Press · United States | 82% | 36.4 | #32,422 | 349 | 16% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Adaptation Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 70% | 47.3 | #21,626 | 155 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Intellect · United Kingdom | 69% | 27.9 | #43,104 | 114 | 9% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Global Shakespeares | 69% | 19.6 | #53,096 | 89 | 7% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Multicultural Shakespeare Translation Appropriation and Performance De Gruyter Open · Poland · DOAJ | 67% | 20.6 | #51,974 | 144 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Trasvases entre la literatura y el cine University of Málaga · Spain · DOAJ | 69% | 15.6 | #56,929 | 87 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies Italy | 73% | 8.1 | #61,156 | 56 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 13 | Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Johns Hopkins University Press · United States | 29% | 68.5 | #7,679 | 120 | 9% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Critical Survey Berghahn Books · United Kingdom | 44% | 39.5 | #28,949 | 175 | 8% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Journal of Religion & Film University of Nebraska Omaha · United States · DOAJ | 29% | 42.7 | #25,559 | 505 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Classical Receptions Journal Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 22% | 50.3 | #19,284 | 109 | 37% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Ben Jonson Journal Edinburgh University Press · United Kingdom | 33% | 28.8 | #41,892 | 113 | 12% | Not recorded |
| 18 | New Review of Film and Television Studies Routledge · United Kingdom | 22% | 48.8 | #20,361 | 219 | 26% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Renaissance Drama Northwestern University Press · United States | 33% | 28.6 | #42,205 | 83 | 13% | Not recorded |
| 20 | English Literature Edizioni Ca’ Foscari · Italy · DOAJ | 37% | 17.8 | #54,948 | 53 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Leviathan Johns Hopkins University Press · United States | 30% | 31.3 | #38,760 | 199 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Quarterly Review of Film and Video Taylor & Francis · United States | 19% | 50.7 | #19,015 | 391 | 24% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 32% | 24.9 | #46,936 | 92 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Comparative drama Western Michigan University · United States | 25% | 37.0 | #31,688 | 164 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Linguaculture De Gruyter Open · Romania · DOAJ | 28% | 30.6 | #39,629 | 149 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Arrêt sur scène OpenEdition Journals · France | 35% | 16.5 | #56,153 | 84 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Humanities Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland · DOAJ | 15% | 52.5 | #17,777 | 867 | 100% | 1,400 CHF |
| 28 | Early Theatre Victoria University · Canada | 27% | 30.8 | #39,399 | 170 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Reception Texts Readers Audiences History Penn State University Press · United States | 21% | 39.9 | #28,515 | 95 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Studies in Theatre and Performance Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 16% | 48.3 | #20,765 | 157 | 57% | Not recorded |
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