The American Journal of Philology is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.[1][2] It covers the field of philology, and related areas of classical literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, and cultural studies.[3] In 2003, the journal received the award for Best Single Issue from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.[4] The current editor-in-chief is Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania).[3] According to Journal Citation Reports, this journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.5 [5] The journal runs an annual prize for "the best article of the year", the Gildersleeve Prize.

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American Journal of Philology
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DisciplinePhilology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJoseph Farrell
Publication details
History1880–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
0.5 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Am. J. Philol.
Indexing
ISSN0002-9475 (print)
1086-3168 (web)
JSTOR00029475
OCLC no.33891035
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Editors-in-chief

Since its inception, the previous editors-in-chief have been:

  • Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1880 - 1919)
  • C.W.E. Miller (1920 - 1934)
  • Benjamin Dean Meritt (1934 - 1935, 1943 - 1946)
  • Tenney Frank (1936 - 1939)
  • Harold Cherniss (1940 - 1942)
  • Henry T. Rowell (1946 - 1971)
  • Georg Luck
  • Barbara Gold
  • David H. J. Larmour
  • Joseph Farrell (current)

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed by the following services:[6]

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