Journal of Folklore Research
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| Discipline | Folklore, ethnomusicology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Solimar Otero |
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Former name(s) | Hoosier Folklore Bulletin, Hoosier Folklore, Midwest Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute |
| History | 1942–present |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press for the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington (United States) |
| Frequency | Triannually |
| 0.33[1] (2013) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Folk. Res. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0737-7037 (print) 1543-0413 (web) |
| LCCN | 84640704 |
| JSTOR | 07377037 |
| OCLC no. | 643631447 |
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The Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on folklore, folklife, and ethnomusicology. It was established in 1942 and is published by Indiana University Press.
History
[edit]The journal was established in 1942 as the Hoosier Folklore Bulletin and continued in 1945 as Hoosier Folklore.[2] It was renamed in 1951 as Midwest Folklore (ISSN 0544-0750)[3][4] and continued from 1964 to 1983 under Richard Dorson as the Journal of the Folklore Institute (ISSN 0015-5934), obtaining its current name in 1984.[5] Since July 2002, the journal has been published and distributed by the Indiana University Press.[6]
The journal is run by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. Following Richard Dorson, the following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal: Mary Ellen Brown, John Holmes McDowell, Moira Marsh, Judah Cohen, Jason Baird Jackson, Michael Foster, and Ray Cashman.
Abstracting and indexing
[edit]The journal is abstracted and indexed in the MLA Bibliography, Humanities Abstracts, EBSCO databases, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences Citation Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Humanities Index, and ProQuest.
References
[edit]- ^ "Journal of Folklore Research An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology: RG Journal Impact Rankings 2017 and 2018". Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ "Hoosier Folklore". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ "Midwest Folklore". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ "Midwest Folklore". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ "Journal of the Folklore Institute". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ "Folklore Journals". American Folklore Society.
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