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Cultural Trends

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 1989

ISSN1469-3690

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.668

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.349

Total Worksi

1,403

Total Citationsi

15,951

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.97

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Cultural Trends covers cultural policy, cultural management and organisation, production and consumption of culture, cultural work and creative labour, audiences and cultural participation, values and functions of culture, creative industries, culture and urban space, culture, environment and sustainability, and cultural diplomacy. The journal aims to stimulate deeper understanding of the cultural and creative sectors through empirical evidence and theoretical insight.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1989

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,403

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1469-3690

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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

332

2019

1.1k

2020

1.2k

2021

368

2022

231

2023

115

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.

CommunicationQ1

Cultural StudiesQ1

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Cultural StudiesHumanities, MultidisciplinarySocial Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesVisual Arts and Performing ArtsCommunication

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial and Cultural DynamicsHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesCultural Heritage Management and PreservationMuseums and Cultural HeritageSport and Mega-Event ImpactsArt History and Market AnalysisEducational Robotics and EngineeringArtistic and Creative Research

Frequently asked questions about Cultural Trends

Is Cultural Trends a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cultural Trends: 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 Trends?

Cultural Trends 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 0.97.

Is Cultural Trends indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cultural Trends is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.