The ''Jamaica Journal'' is a

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published by the

Institute of Jamaica The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. Its predecessor was the ''Journal of the Institute of Jamaica'', established in 1896. In 1967, the ''Jamaica Journal'' was established as a quarterly journal, "to reflect the Institute's interest in the development and promotion of Jamaica's history, literature, science and arts". In 2002, the journal temporarily ceased publication; it was relaunched in 2004 under a new

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Kim Robinson-Walcott Kimberly-Ann Robinson-Walcott (born 1956) is a Jamaican poet and editor. She has been the editor-in-chief of the ''Jamaica Journal'' since 2004 and editor-in-chief of the ''Caribbean Quarterly'' since 2010. Robinson-Walcott is the author of a stu ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life,

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