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DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE

WAYNE STATE UNIV PRESS · US · Est. 2000

ISSN1522-5321eISSN1536-1810

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Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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H-Indexi

Total Worksi

593

Total Citationsi

2,089

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.03

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture publishes work in the theoretical humanities, emphasizing the critical study of film, literature, the visual arts, and related audiovisual media. It seeks contributions exploring the relations of these and other cultural phenomena to questions of language, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, and history.

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General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2000

Annual Volume~ 17 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2024)

Total Publications593

Publisher OrgWayne State University Press

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

WAYNE STATE UNIV PRESS

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1522-5321 / 1536-1810

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS

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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

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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.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cinema and Media StudiesPhilosophy, Ethics, and ExistentialismArt, Politics, and ModernismLatin American Literature StudiesLatin American and Latino StudiesWalter Benjamin Studies CompilationVisual Culture and Art TheoryItalian Fascism and Post-war SocietyPolitical Theology and SovereigntyPhotography and Visual Culture

Frequently asked questions about DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE

Is DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE?

DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE 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 0.03.

Is DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

DISCOURSE-JOURNAL FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE is indexed in Web of Science.