About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Intercultural Studies
showcases innovative scholarship on emerging cultural formations, intercultural negotiations and contemporary challenges to cultures and identities. It celebrates a long-established commitment to publishing research at the intersection of cultural studies and migration studies.
More than this, Journal of Intercultural Studies
is an international and multidisciplinary journal. It encourages contributions from scholars in cultural studies, migration studies, literary studies, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, cultural geography, urban studies, race and ethnic studies, that contribute insights to the following discussions:
- Reconceptualising notions of nationhood, citizenship and belonging;
- Questioning theories of diaspora, transnationalism, hybridity and ‘border crossing’, and their contextualised applications;
- Exploring the contemporary sociocultural formations of whiteness, ethnicity, racialization, postcolonialism and indigeneity
- Examining how past and contemporary key scholars can inform current thinking on intercultural knowledge, multiculturalism, race and cultural identity.
Journal of Intercultural Studies
features research articles, review essays, commentaries, book reviews, interviews and symposia. Regular Special Issues provide stimulating, focused engagement with emerging research agendas and practices. The Journal of Intercultural Studiesalso publishes shorter Special Sections that can provide a snapshot into an issue area with 3-4 articles and a short guest editorial introduction.
The editors welcome proposals for Special Issues and Special Sections that address the journal’s aims above. See the special issue request form for more details.
Peer Review Policy
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double-anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing. All review, invited, opinion, and reflective papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and peer review.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 151K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.650 (2023) SNIP
- 0.337 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 35 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 121 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 40% 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
Managing Editors:
Paula Muraca – Deakin University, Australia
Melissa Phillips – Western Sydney University, Australia
Editor:
Fethi Mansouri – Deakin University, Australia
Associate Editors:
Sylvia Ang – Monash University Australia
Nazry Bahrawi - USA
Rose Butler - Deakin University, Australia
Erica Chito Childs – Hunter College, USA
Juan Manuel Engelman – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
Laavanya Kathiravelu – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Alvin Wong – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marilena Indelicato – University of Coimbra, Portugal
Laura Rodriguez Castro – Deakin University, Australia
Book Review Editor:
Marilena Indelicato – University of Coimbra, Center for Social Studies, Germany
Editorial Advisory Board:
Ien Ang – Western Sydney University, Australia
Floya Anthias – University of East London, UK
Avril Bell – University of Auckland, New Zealand
Simone Bignall – University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Sirma Bilge – Universite de Montreal, Canada
IP Iam Chong – Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Natividad Gutierrez Chong – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Nira Yuval-Davis – University of East London, UK
Teun van Dijk – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Karen Farquharson – University of Melbourne, Australia
Farida Fozdar – Curtin University, Australia
Daniel PS Goh – National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ghassan Hage – University of Melbourne, Australia
Anita Harris – Deakin University, Australia
Kirsten Hvenegard-Lassen – Roskilde University, Denmark
Koichi Iwabuchi – Monash University, Australia
Andrew Jakubowicz – University of Technology, Australia
Tseen Khoo – La Trobe University, Australia
Peter Kivisto – Augustana College, USA
Will Kymlicka – Queens University, Canada
Alana Lentin – Western Sydney University, Australia
Vince Marotta – Deakin University, Australia
Fran Martin – University of Melbourne, Australia
Mathew Mathews – National University of Singapore, Singapore
Daniel Mato – Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Sarah Neal – University of Sheffield, UK
Greg Noble – Western Sydney University, Australia
Nikos Papastergiadis – University of Melbourne, Australia
Suvendrini Perera – Curtin University, Australia
Scott Poynting – Queensland University of Technology and Charles Sturt University, Australia
Shanthi Robertson – Western Sydney University, Australia
Ajaya Sahoo – University of Hyderabad, India
Claudia Salomon-Tarquini – Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina
Georgina Tsolidis – Federation University, Australia
Linda Tuhiwai Smith – University of Waikato, New Zealand
Chih-Ming Wang – Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Bob W. White – University of Montreal, Canada
Amanda Wise – Macquarie University, Australia
Updated 26 June 2024
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Intercultural Studies is abstracted and indexed in A P A I S: Australian Public Affairs Information Service (Online Edition), EBSCOhost, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); OCLC, Periodicals Index Online, SCOPUS, Social Services Abstracts, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Swets Information Services, and Thomson Gale (Gale Group).
Open access
Journal of Intercultural 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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- 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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