German Studies Review

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German Studies Review publishes articles and book reviews on the history, literature, culture, politics of the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Read by historians, literary scholars, film scholars, musicologists, art historians, and political scientists, the journal is distinguished by its interdisciplinary orientation and particularly interested in cultural studies approaches. The journal appears three times each year, in February, May, and October. Articles and reviews are published in English or German. Each issue contains scholarly articles and book reviews, including a review essay. German Studies Review is the official journal of the German Studies Association (GSA), and members receive an annual subscription as a benefit of membership.

German Studies Review is a journal of first publication, and all submissions are peer-reviewed (double-blind review). Manuscripts previously published, in press, or concurrently under consideration by another journal or publisher (including electronic publication) will not be considered; the same applies to author interviews or translations. The articles should be between 6,000-9,000 words in length (including endnotes). A house style sheet can be downloaded as a PDF from this website; compliance with the style sheet is a precondition of final acceptance. PhD students with ABD status are welcome to submit their unpublished research directly to the journal. All graduate students are eligible for the GSA Prize for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student, with the winner to be published in the GSR.

House Style Sheet in English
House Style Sheet in German

To submit a manuscript, please click the button below. You will be asked to create an account with the journal's online submission system.  

Submit an Article

For all other correspondence, please contact the editor, preferably by email.

Katharina Gerstenberger,
Professor of German
German Studies Review, Editor
Department of World Languages & Cultures
LNCO 1400
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

email: editor@thegsa.org

Book Reviews

Book reviews are solicited by the book review editors, and no unsolicited reviews will be considered. Individuals seeking to be added to the reviewer list should send a brief curriculum vitae, including e-mail address, to the respective book review editor and indicate for which areas and fields they would like to be considered; reviewers must have a PhD or the equivalent. Potential reviewers and publishers should contact:

Potential reviewers and publishers should contact:

Gundela Hachmann (Literature/Culture) 
Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures 
Louisiana State University 
306 Hodges Hall 
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 
email: ghachmann@lsu.edu

Michael (Mac) Mackenzie (History/Political Science)
Art History
Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH)
1226 Park Street
Grinnell, IA 50112
email: mackenzie@grinnell.edu

Book Review style Sheet English
Book Review style Sheet German

All other correspondence regarding the German Studies Association should be addressed to the President, Secretary-Treasurer, or Executive Director of the German Studies Association; see thegsa.org/ for contact information.

The Hopkins Press Journals Ethics and Malpractice Statement can be found at the ethics-and-malpractice page.

Peer Review Policy

German Studies Review is a journal of first publication, and all submissions are peer-reviewed (double-blind review). Manuscripts previously published, in press, or concurrently under consideration by another journal or publisher (including electronic publication) will not be considered; the same applies to author interviews or translations. The articles should be between 6,000-9,000 words in length (including endnotes). The languages of publication are English and German. Scholars from the fields of German Studies, history, art history, musicology, political science, anthropology, and so forth are eligible for submission; this includes PhD students with ABD status. Criteria for review include originality and coherence of argument, appropriate use of sources and methodologies, and suitability of the topic for an interdisciplinary cultural studies journal. Recommendations include accept, provisional accept, revise and resubmit, and reject, with the majority falling in the “revise and resubmit” category. The review process usually takes three months, with the time between acceptance and publication currently averaging one year.

Editor

Katharina Gerstenberger 
Department of World Languages & Cultures, University of Utah

Assistant to the Editor

Talita Wiener-Osman 
Department of World Languages & Cultures, University of Utah

Book Review Editor (Literature, Culture)

Gundela Hachmann 
Louisiana State University

Book Review Editor (Art History, History, Political Science)

Michael MacKenzie 
Grinnell College

Assistant to the Book Review Editors

Qingyang Freya Zhou 
University of California, Berkeley

Founding Editor (1978–2001)

Gerald Kleinfeld

Editorial Board

Jennifer L. Allen 
Department of History 
Yale University

Stewart Anderson 
Department of History 
Brigham Young University

Dolores Augustine (Emerita) 
Department of History 
St. John’s University

Gabriele Dürbeck 
Fakultät für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften 
Universität Vechta

April Eisman 
Department of Art and Visual Culture 
Iowa State University

Jaimey Fisher 
Department of German and Cinema & Digital Media 
University of California, Davis

Thomas Lekan 
Department of History 
University of South Carolina

Benjamin Marschke 
Department of History 
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Qinna Shen 
Department of German and German Studies 
Bryn Mawr College

Heather Sullivan 
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 
Trinity University

Christoph Weber 
Department of World Languages, Literature, and Cultures 
University of North Texas

Jeffrey Zalar 
Department of History 
University of Cincinnati

Send all inquiries regarding book reviews to: 

Gundela Hachmann (Literature/Culture) 
Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures 
Louisiana State University 
306 Hodges Hall 
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 
email: ghachmann@lsu.edu

Michael (Mac) Mackenzie (History/Political Science)  
Art History  
Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH)  
1226 Park Street  
Grinnell, IA 50112  
email: mackenzie@grinnell.edu

Please send book review copies to the contacts above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Brill
  • Linguistic Bibliography (Online)
• Clarivate Analytics
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Current Contents
  • Web of Science
• De Gruyter Saur
  • Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
  • IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 7/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Complete, 7/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Elite, 7/1/2003-
  • Academic Search Premier, 7/1/2003-
  • America: History and Life, 2/1/1979-
  • American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (Online), 1990-, dropped
  • ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association), 1981-1990, dropped
  • Biography Index: Past and Present (H.W. Wilson), vol.26, no.3, 2003-vol.30, no.1, 2007
  • Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Feb.2000-
  • Current Abstracts, 7/1/2003-
  • Historical Abstracts (Online), 2/1/1978-
  • Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), 2/1/2000-
  • Humanities Index (Online), 2000/02-
  • Humanities International Complete, 7/1/2003-
  • Humanities International Index, 7/1/2003-
  • Humanities Source, 2/1/2000-
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 2/1/2000-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), 2/1/2000-
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 7/1/2003-
  • Political Science Complete, 7/1/2003-
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
  • SocINDEX, 1/1/1995-
  • SocINDEX with Full Text, 1/1/1995-
  • STM Source, 5/1/2006-
  • STM Source, 5/1/2006-
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 7/1/2003-
• Elsevier BV
  • GEOBASE
  • Scopus, 1996-, 1987, 1985, 1982
• Gale
  • Book Review Index Plus
  • Gale Academic OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile Select, 05/2000-
  • Gale General OneFile, 05/2000-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• National Library of Medicine
  • PubMed
• OCLC
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  • Humanities Index (Online), 2000/02-
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
  • ABI/INFORM Collection, 2/1/2012-
  • ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (American Business Information), 2/1/2012-
  • Business Premium Collection, 02/01/2012-
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Periodicals Index Online
  • Professional ABI/INFORM Complete, 02/01/2012-
  • Professional ProQuest Central, 02/01/2012-
  • ProQuest 5000, 02/01/2012-
  • ProQuest Central, 02/01/2012-
  • Research Library, 02/01/2012-
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
  • Social Science Premium Collection, 02/01/2012-, dropped

Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Children's Literature Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• MLA Abstracts of Articles in Scholarly Journals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index One: Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Social Planning - Policy & Development Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

0.3 (2024)
0.3 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00010 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

Rank in Category (by Journal Impact Factor):
135 of 182 journals, in “Area Studies”

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Published three times a year

Readers include: Those interested in history, literature, culture studies, politics, and interdisciplinary topics relating to the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Print circulation: 2,029

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