Fabula (journal)
Fabula (von lat. fabula: „story, fable“) is a multilingual academic journal on international comparative folktale studies with a focus on European narratives (such as fairy tales, sagas and fables). It publishes essays, reviews and conference reports in German, English and French. Its subtitle is: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung. Journal of Folktale Studies. Revue d'Etudes sur le Conte Populaire.
Since 1958, the journal Fabula has been published bi-annually at the publisher De Gruyter in Berlin and Boston and is available as both print and online-edition. It was founded by the German scholar Kurt Ranke[1] and is currently edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Christine Shojaei Kawan, Simone Stiefbold and Harm-Peer Zimmermann. It is closely connected to the multi-volume work Enzyklopädie des Märchens (Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales).[2]
In 2014 it had an SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2014 of 0.100.[3]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in various Abstracting & Indexing Services, among them:
- Baidu Scholar
- Celdes
- EBSCO (relevant databases)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- Elsevier - SCOPUS
- ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Google Scholar
- MLA International Bibliography
- SCImago (SJR)
- Thomson Reuters - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Thomson Reuters – Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
- WorldCat (OCLC)[4]