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Cultural Studies

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1987

ISSN1466-4348

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI · AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.523

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.128

Total Worksi

2,028

Total Citationsi

53,563

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.94

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Cultural Studies welcomes research that critically engages with techniques, institutions, and systems of power, formations of resistance, activism, and intervention. It also covers the history, politics, and philosophy of media/technology, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and theories and practices of globalization. The journal addresses the histories and long-term effects of colonialism, race theory and ethnic studies, and the cultural politics of language, communication, and keywords.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

FrequencyBimonthly, 2002-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,028

Publisher OrgRoutledge

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1466-4348

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

701

2019

574

2020

122

1.1k

2021

349

2022

109

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

AnthropologyQ1

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q1

Cultural StudiesQ1

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

AnthropologyCultural Studies

Scopus Categories

AnthropologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Cultural StudiesArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Music History and CultureCultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentGender, Feminism, and MediaSocial and Cultural DynamicsAnthropological Studies and InsightsMedia Studies and CommunicationHuman auditory perception and evaluationAsian Culture and Media StudiesGeographies of human-animal interactionsCinema and Media Studies

Frequently asked questions about Cultural Studies

Is Cultural Studies a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cultural Studies: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Cultural Studies?

Cultural Studies 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 0.94.

Is Cultural Studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cultural Studies is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.