About this journal
Aims and scope
Cultural Trends, a peer-reviewed international journal (AHCI and SSCI), provides in-depth analysis of the cultural sector and cultural policy. It offers timely investigations into key issues in the arts, culture and creative sectors, and critically engages with ongoing policy debates from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. The journal champions methodological rigour and is keen to comment on evidence used for policy making, but it values quantitative and qualitative approaches equally. It serves as a platform to reach a broad audience and research communities worldwide and communicate with both cultural practitioners and policymakers.
The coverage of the journal includes but is not limited to the following areas:
- 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
- Cultural diplomacy
Journal metrics
Usage
- 142K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 2.438 (2023) SNIP
- 0.966 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 22 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 220 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 23% 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
Editors:
Eleonora Belfiore - Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity, Vice-Principal’s office, University of Aberdeen, UK ([email protected])
Steven Hadley - Research Fellow, School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin
Hye-Kyung Lee - Professor of Cultural Policy, Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King's College London, UK ([email protected])
Editorial Advisory Board:
Orian Brook - Postdoctoral Researcher, Edinburgh College, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tom Campbell - Independent consultant, UK
Hsiao-Ling Chung - Associate Professor, Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
James Doeser - Freelance researcher and writer, and Editor of CultureCase, Cultural Institute, King's College London, UK
Nancy Duxbury - Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Katya Johanson - Professor Creative Humanities, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Sari Karttunen - Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor,The Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research, Finland
Andrew Newman - Professor of Cultural Gerontology, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK
Jennifer Novak-Leonard - Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Tomás Peters - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication and Image, University of Chile, Chile
Andrew Pinnock - Professsor of Music, Department of Music, University of Southampton, UK
Michael Rushton - Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
David Stevenson - Head of Division, Media, Communication and Performing Arts, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
Mark Taylor - Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods, Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
David Throsby - Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Australia
Ben Walmsley - Professor in Audience Engagement, University of Leeds, UK
Paul Widdop - Deputy Director of Management, Leadership and Leisure, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/ Indexed in: Ats & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI); ARTbibliographies Modern; Current Abstracts; Electronic Collections Online; Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts; OCLC; PAIS International; SCOPUS; Sociological Abstracts; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) Social Services Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Open access
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- 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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