Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an international open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes emergent research on culture and politics. We are interested in work that advances novel and emerging perspectives, methods and approaches on our understanding of emergent issues such as global developments related to digital society, technologies and cultures; climate change; infrastructure politics; gender and inequality; transformations in science and knowledge; automation; rising militarism, and changes in media and cultural economies. The journal seeks to be an arena for a cross-disciplinary dialogue and welcomes contributions from a wide range of fields including media and communication studies, critical data- and algorithm studies, gender studies, history, social anthropology, the environmental humanities, human geography, cultural studies, science and technology studies and related fields.
⚡ Speed vs Prestige
How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?
20
weeks to review
Average · median is 15 wks
Q3
SJR Rank
Top 75% in field
General Information
Country / RegionSweden
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2009
Annual Volume~ 13 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications567
Publisher OrgLinköping University Electronic Press
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SJR Quartile by Discipline
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q3
Cultural StudiesQ3
AnthropologyQ4
Subject Classification
Scopus Categories
AnthropologyCultural StudiesArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Research Topics (OpenAlex)
Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentCultural Heritage Management and PreservationGender, Feminism, and MediaMemory, Trauma, and CommemorationMuseums and Cultural HeritageFashion and Cultural TextilesMedia Studies and CommunicationSocial Media and PoliticsGeographies of human-animal interactionsSocial and Cultural Dynamics