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Culture, Theory and Critique

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 2002

ISSN1473-5776

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.128

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.124

Total Worksi

491

Total Citationsi

3,404

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.26

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Cultural Studies; Humanities, Multidisciplinary; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2002

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications491

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?

1473-5776

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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

286

2019

240

2020

120

2021

2022

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.

Cultural StudiesQ3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Cultural StudiesHumanities, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceCultural Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Music History and CulturePhilosophy, Ethics, and ExistentialismGeographies of human-animal interactionsHuman auditory perception and evaluationCinema and Media StudiesAnthropological Studies and InsightsPosthumanist Ethics and ActivismCritical Theory and PhilosophyDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesVisual Culture and Art Theory

Frequently asked questions about Culture, Theory and Critique

Is Culture, Theory and Critique a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Culture, Theory and Critique: 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 Culture, Theory and Critique?

Culture, Theory and Critique 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 0.26.

Is Culture, Theory and Critique indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Culture, Theory and Critique is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Culture, Theory and Critique?