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
Cultural Trends is widely read and referred to by academics, researchers, journalists and consultants, by funders, sponsors and policymakers, and by those concerned with the promotion and development of the cultural and creative sectors.

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

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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  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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