English Studies at NBU
New Bulgarian University · Bulgaria · Est. 2015
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Aims & Scope
English Studies at NBU (ESNBU)is an entirely open access (Diamond Open Access), double-blind peer reviewed academic journal published by the Department of English Studies, New Bulgarian University in two issues per year, June and December, in print and online. ESNBU receives institutional support from the New Bulgarian University Publishing House.ESNBU welcomes original research articles, book reviews, discussion contributions and other forms of analysis and comment encompassing all aspects of English Studies and English for professional communication and the creative professions. Manuscripts are accepted in English. Translations of published articles and preprints are generally not accepted.ESNBU is fullyOpen Access(Diamond Open Access) - all published articles are freely available without charge to the users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. This is in accordance with the definition of open access of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). English Studies at NBU (ESNBU)is abstracted and indexed in:CEEOL- Central and Eastern European Online LibraryERIH PLUS- European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social SciencesMLA- Directory of Periodicals and MLA International BibliographyROAD- Directory of Open Access Scholarly ResourcesOpenAIREWeb of ScienceCore Collection (ESCI) - Emerging Sources Citation IndexDOAJ- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ Seal)NSD- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and PublishersCrossrefmemberBrillLinguistic BibliographyEBSCOhostCEEAS- Central & Eastern European Academic SourceEBSCO Open ResearchEBSCOhost Academic JournalsICI Index Copernicus -Journals Master list databaseRSCICore - Russian Science Citation Index (РИНЦ)CNKI S
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Frequently asked questions about English Studies at NBU
Is English Studies at NBU a predatory journal?
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What is the impact factor of English Studies at NBU?
English Studies at NBU is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.20.
Is English Studies at NBU indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?
English Studies at NBU is indexed in Web of Science, DOAJ.
What is the aims and scope of English Studies at NBU?
English Studies at NBU (ESNBU)is an entirely open access (Diamond Open Access), double-blind peer reviewed academic journal published by the Department of English Studies, New Bulgarian University in two issues per year, June and December, in print and online. ESNBU receives institutional support from the New Bulgarian University Publishing House.ESNBU welcomes original research articles, book reviews, discussion contributions and other forms of analysis and comment encompassing all aspects of English Studies and English for professional communication and the creative professions. Manuscripts
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