About this journal
Aims and scope
Citizenship Studies is an academic journal that takes the discourse and practice of citizenship as an object of critical inquiry. This includes the affects, economies, ideologies, spatialities, subjectivities, and temporalities relevant to contending articulations of citizenship. We seek submissions that are responsive to forms of domination and control in relation to citizenship, as well as to modes of resistance and transformation. The journal addresses historical and contemporary questions of concern to various publics; it aims to cover a wide geographical scope and encourages approaches that attempt to move beyond methodological nationalism. We seek submissions that make original theoretical and empirical contributions and encourage interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, international studies, politics, political-economy and sociology.
Peer Review
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.Introductions and Afterwords for special issues are double anonymized reviewed by members of the editorial board.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 230K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.435 (2023) SNIP
- 1.059 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 37 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 106 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 10% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Founding Editor:
Bryan S. Turner - CUNY, USA and The Australian Catholic University, Australia
Chief Editors:
Engin Isin - Queen Mary University of London, UK
Peter Nyers - McMaster University, Canada
Kim Rygiel - Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Associate Editors:
Özlem Altan-Olcay – Koç University, Turkey
Zhonghua Guo - Nanjing University, China
Heather Johnson - Queen's University Belfast, UK
Cetta Mainwaring - University of Edinburgh, UK
Julie Young - University of Lethbridge, Canada
Assistant Editors:
Ian Morrison – The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Aoileann Ni Mhurchu - University of Manchester, UK
Shirin Saeidi – University of Arkansas, USA
Reiko Shindo - University of Tampere, Finland
Katie Tonkiss – Ashton University, UK
Diana Zacca Thomaz - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Advisory Board:
Jennifer Bagelman - Newcastle University, UK
Leah Bassel - University of Coventry, UK
Linda Bosniak - Rutgers University, USA
Guy Ben-Porat - Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Kyung-Sup Chang - Seoul National University, South Korea
Fuat Keyman - Sabanci University, Turkey
Gal Levy - The Open University, Israel
Anne McNevin - New School for Social Research, USA
Radhika Mongia – York University, Canada
Catherine Neveu - LAIOS – CNRS, France
Francis Nyamnjoh - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Yoav Peled - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Robbie Shilliam – Johns Hopkins University, USA
Vicki Squire - University of Warwick, UK
William Walters - Carleton University, Canada
Editorial Board:
Salina Abji - Carleton University, Canada
Lauren Banko - University of Manchester, UK
Elizabeth Cohen - Boston University, USA
Anne-Marie D'Aoust - Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada
Aneria Edmunds - University of Sussex, UK
Umut Erel - The Open University, UK
Sara Goodman - University of California, Irvine, USA
Kirsty Gover - University of Melbourne, Australia
Jack Harrington - The Wellcome Trust, UK
Nisha Kapoor - University of Warwick, UK
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Walter Nicholls - University of California, Irvine, USA
Robtel Neajai Pailey - The London School of Economics , UK
Eeva Puumala - University of Tampere, Finland
Francesco Ragazzi - Leiden University, Denmark
Kamal Sadiq - University of California, Irvine, USA
Alina Sajed - McMaster University, Canada
Uditi Sen – University of Nottingham, UK
Maurice Stierl - University of Warwick, UK
Charles T Lee - Arizona State University, USA
Rose Ndengue - York University, Canada
Sivamohan Valluvan – University of Warwick, UK
Karen Zivi - Grand Valley State University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Indexed in Web of Science (SSCI) and Scopus.
Open access
Citizenship Studies is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
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