Sewanee Review

Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent, the Sewanee Review is America’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly. Many of the twentieth century’s great writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, Katherine Anne Porter, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, have appeared in the magazine. SR also has a long tradition of cultivating emerging talent: we published excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor’s first novels, and the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Christian Wiman. “Whatever the new literature turns out to be,” wrote editor Allen Tate in 1944, “it will be the privilege of the Sewanee Review to print its share of it, to comment on it, and to try to understand it.” The mission remains unchanged. In 2017 the novelist Adam Ross (Mr. Peanut, Ladies and Gentlemen) succeeded George Core as editor of the Sewanee Review. Under Ross’s tenure the magazine was redesigned for the first time in seventy-three years, by the book designers Peter Mendelsund and Oliver Munday, and SR began to publish online as well as in print. 2017 also marked the Sewanee Review‘s 125th year of publication. Volume 125 featured exceptional writers like Richard Russo, Francine Prose, Lauren Groff, Ben Fountain, Alice McDermott, Mary Jo Salter, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Danielle Evans, Stephanie Danler, Donika Kelly, Kaveh Akbar, Hannah Pittard, Jamie Quatro, Adam Kirsch, and others. Fall 2017 marked the magazine’s five-hundredth issue. The magazine’s redesign and recent issues have been covered by the New York Times, the Nashville Scene, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Poets & Writers, Chapter 16, and elsewhere.

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Category	Year	Quartile
Literature and Literary Theory	2007	Q2
Literature and Literary Theory	2008	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2009	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2010	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2011	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2012	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2013	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2014	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2015	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2016	Q3
Literature and Literary Theory	2017	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2018	Q2
Literature and Literary Theory	2019	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2020	Q3
Literature and Literary Theory	2021	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2022	Q4
Literature and Literary Theory	2023	Q4

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
2007	0.104
2008	0.100
2009	0.100
2010	0.100
2011	0.100
2012	0.100
2013	0.100
2014	0.100
2015	0.100
2016	0.110
2017	0.100
2018	0.112
2019	0.100
2020	0.102
2021	0.100
2022	0.100
2023	0.100

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
2006	5
2007	57
2008	63
2009	26
2010	50
2011	40
2012	52
2013	52
2014	53
2015	49
2016	40
2017	41
2018	35
2019	43
2020	36
2021	41
2022	36
2023	34

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.026
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	0.031
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	0.050
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	0.018
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	0.031
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	0.020
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	0.024
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	0.015
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.038
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	0.012
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	0.019
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	0.013
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	0.019
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	0.038
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	0.027
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	0.022
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	0.034
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	0.007
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	0.035
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	0.025
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	0.032
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	0.007
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.046
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	0.025
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	0.018
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	0.025
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	0.018
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	0.045
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	0.026
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	0.033
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	0.038
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	0.010
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	0.039
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	0.011
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.025
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	0.013
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	0.039
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	0.000

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	2006	0
Self Cites	2007	0
Self Cites	2008	0
Self Cites	2009	0
Self Cites	2010	0
Self Cites	2011	0
Self Cites	2012	0
Self Cites	2013	0
Self Cites	2014	0
Self Cites	2015	0
Self Cites	2016	0
Self Cites	2017	0
Self Cites	2018	0
Self Cites	2019	0
Self Cites	2020	0
Self Cites	2021	0
Self Cites	2022	0
Self Cites	2023	0
Total Cites	2006	0
Total Cites	2007	0
Total Cites	2008	0
Total Cites	2009	0
Total Cites	2010	4
Total Cites	2011	3
Total Cites	2012	4
Total Cites	2013	1
Total Cites	2014	5
Total Cites	2015	4
Total Cites	2016	5
Total Cites	2017	1
Total Cites	2018	6
Total Cites	2019	0
Total Cites	2020	3
Total Cites	2021	2
Total Cites	2022	3
Total Cites	2023	2

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	2006	0
External Cites per document	2007	0.000
External Cites per document	2008	0.000
External Cites per document	2009	0.000
External Cites per document	2010	0.027
External Cites per document	2011	0.022
External Cites per document	2012	0.034
External Cites per document	2013	0.007
External Cites per document	2014	0.035
External Cites per document	2015	0.025
External Cites per document	2016	0.032
External Cites per document	2017	0.007
External Cites per document	2018	0.046
External Cites per document	2019	0.000
External Cites per document	2020	0.025
External Cites per document	2021	0.018
External Cites per document	2022	0.025
External Cites per document	2023	0.018
Cites per document	2006	0.000
Cites per document	2007	0.000
Cites per document	2008	0.000
Cites per document	2009	0.000
Cites per document	2010	0.027
Cites per document	2011	0.022
Cites per document	2012	0.034
Cites per document	2013	0.007
Cites per document	2014	0.035
Cites per document	2015	0.025
Cites per document	2016	0.032
Cites per document	2017	0.007
Cites per document	2018	0.046
Cites per document	2019	0.000
Cites per document	2020	0.025
Cites per document	2021	0.018
Cites per document	2022	0.025
Cites per document	2023	0.018

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
2006	0.00
2007	0.00
2008	0.00
2009	0.00
2010	0.00
2011	0.00
2012	0.00
2013	0.00
2014	0.00
2015	0.00
2016	0.00
2017	0.00
2018	0.00
2019	0.00
2020	0.00
2021	0.00
2022	0.00
2023	0.00

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	2006	0
Non-citable documents	2007	0
Non-citable documents	2008	0
Non-citable documents	2009	1
Non-citable documents	2010	1
Non-citable documents	2011	2
Non-citable documents	2012	1
Non-citable documents	2013	10
Non-citable documents	2014	9
Non-citable documents	2015	9
Non-citable documents	2016	0
Non-citable documents	2017	0
Non-citable documents	2018	1
Non-citable documents	2019	5
Non-citable documents	2020	7
Non-citable documents	2021	7
Non-citable documents	2022	5
Non-citable documents	2023	4
Citable documents	2006	0
Citable documents	2007	5
Citable documents	2008	62
Citable documents	2009	124
Citable documents	2010	145
Citable documents	2011	137
Citable documents	2012	115
Citable documents	2013	132
Citable documents	2014	135
Citable documents	2015	148
Citable documents	2016	154
Citable documents	2017	142
Citable documents	2018	129
Citable documents	2019	111
Citable documents	2020	112
Citable documents	2021	107
Citable documents	2022	115
Citable documents	2023	109

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	2006	0
Uncited documents	2007	5
Uncited documents	2008	62
Uncited documents	2009	125
Uncited documents	2010	142
Uncited documents	2011	136
Uncited documents	2012	112
Uncited documents	2013	141
Uncited documents	2014	139
Uncited documents	2015	154
Uncited documents	2016	149
Uncited documents	2017	141
Uncited documents	2018	124
Uncited documents	2019	116
Uncited documents	2020	117
Uncited documents	2021	112
Uncited documents	2022	118
Uncited documents	2023	112
Cited documents	2006	0
Cited documents	2007	0
Cited documents	2008	0
Cited documents	2009	0
Cited documents	2010	4
Cited documents	2011	3
Cited documents	2012	4
Cited documents	2013	1
Cited documents	2014	5
Cited documents	2015	3
Cited documents	2016	5
Cited documents	2017	1
Cited documents	2018	6
Cited documents	2019	0
Cited documents	2020	2
Cited documents	2021	2
Cited documents	2022	2
Cited documents	2023	1