About this journal
Aims and scope
Art in Translation is the first journal that takes as its mission the publication of quality English language translation of the most significant and interesting articles on visual culture presently available only in their source languages. These texts are drawn from all areas of the visual arts: painting and drawing, sculpture, architecture, design, installation works and digital media. They introduce the English-speaking readership to new areas of scholarship and to writings that share as their main qualities excellence and originality.
Advised by an extensive network of scholars in art history and visual culture across the globe, Art in Translation actively seeks out those texts that deserve to be known to the broadest possible audience. It combines scholarly acumen with a readability that appeals to a broad audience, and is intended not only for specialists working in a single field of enquiry, but for anyone who is looking for new insights into visual art scholarship and practice across the world.
Over the years, Art in Translation has been building up a library of texts and images on art across the world, which offers an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across a wide range of disciplines. In addition to texts on contemporary visual culture, the journal also publishes key texts from earlier decades and centuries, which have never before been available in English.
Art in Translation also acts as a vehicle for original research into the translational processes (interlingual, intermedial, and/or intercultural) found in art and visual culture as well as in the discipline of art history itself. Past issues devoted to questions of translation include: ‘Art History and Translation’ (Vol. 2.2, 2010), ‘Visual Culture and Translation’ (Vol. 4.1, 2012), ‘Chinese Art and Translation’ (Vol. 5.1, 2013), and ‘Translating Cultures in the Hispanic World’ (Vol. 7.1, March 2015). From 2017 onwards, Art in Translation will devote one peer-reviewed issue per year to topics of translation.
Art in Translation is published four times per year principally in electronic format. This reflects radical changes in library purchasing policy and reading practice, as both increasingly favour digital formats over hard copy. Digital technology not only makes Art in Translation accessible to the broadest possible global audience, but also enables full-colour illustrations and the ability to provide links to related websites, video, and commentary.
Art in Translation enables new dialogues between languages and cultures and promotes new transcultural relationships.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 27K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.112 (2023) SJR
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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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Claudia Hopkins
Professor of Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
Co-Editors
Mira Xenia SchwerdaGetty
Postdoctoral Fellow, Edinburgh
Founding Editor
Iain Boyd Whyte
Honorary Professorial Fellow, ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
Associate Editors
Richard Anderson
Professor of Architectural History and Theory, ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), University of Edinburgh, UK
Zoë Strother
Riggio Professor of African Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Editorial Board
Hala Auji
Hamad bin Khalifa Chair for Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jens Baumgarten
Professor in History of Art, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil
Tom Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University, USA
Sarah E. Fraser
Professor of Chinese Art History, Head of Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
Margit Kern
Professor in History of Art, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Filip Lipiński
Assistant Professor, History of Art, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Halle O'Neal, Reader, History of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
David Roxburgh
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University, USA
Ruth Simbao
Professor in History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhodes University, South Africa
Giovanna Targia
Researcher, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy
Adedoyin Teriba
Assistant Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College, USA
Verónica Uribe
Associate Professor in Art History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Lai Yu-chih
Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Former board members:
Dario Gamboni
Université de Genève, Switzerland
Susanne Kuechler
University College London, UK
Vojtêch Lahoda
Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Nancy Micklewright
Smithsonian Institution, USA
Piotr Piotrowski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Ruth B. Phillips
Carleton University, Canada
Editorial Manager
Kristina Keall
History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Interns
2022-2023:
Amy Lewis, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2017-2018:
Carolina Hayes Vidal, Msc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2016-2017:
Georgios Miliaras, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2015-2016:
Tamsin Prideaux, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2014-2015:
Marni Bayles, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2013-14:
Sehnaz Yilmaz, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2012-2013:
Lauren Ashby, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Amandine Lizot
2011-2012:
Paula Niemeier, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2010-2011:
Viktorija Kasperovica, Msc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Advisory Board
Akira Akiyama
University of Tokyo, Japan
Claudia Bolgia
University of Edinburgh, UK
Olivier Bonfait
Université de Provence, France
Roberto Conduru
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Wilfried van Damme
Leiden University, Netherlands
Barnaby Dicker
Germany
Igor Dukhan
Belarus University, Belarus
Lena Fritsch
Tate Modern, UK
Irina Genova
New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Gavin Grindon
Kingston University, UK
Daniela Hammer-Tugendthat
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria
Christopher Heuer
Princeton University, USA
Filip Lipinski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Jeremy Howard
University of St. Andrews, UK
Christian Joschke
Université Lumière (Lyon 2), France
Zeynep Inankur
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
Agata Jakubowska
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Lisa Le Feuvre
Henry Moore Institute, UK
Debbie Lewer
University of Glasgow, UK
Reina Lewis
University of the Arts, UK
Christina Lodder
University of St. Andrews, UK
Joseph Masheck
Edinburgh College of Art, UK and Hofstra University, USA
Rosalind McKever
University of Sussex, UK
Yuri Mitsuda
Shibuya Shoto Museum, Japan
Parul Dave Mukherji
School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Yuko Nakama
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Natalia Murray
The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
Bernd Nicolai
University of Berne, Switzerland
Massimo Paolini
Independent Architecture Theorist, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Probst
Tufts University, USA
Matthew Rampley
University of Birmingham, UK
Jonathan Reynolds
Columbia University, USA
Mary Roberts
University of Sydney, Australia
Jeremy Roe
University of Nottingham, UK / Spain
Tania Orum
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
David Sánchez Cano
Madrid, Spain
Philippe Sénéchal
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France
Hsueh-man Shen
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA
Gabriela Siracusano
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maria Stavrinaki
Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Deborah Stein
University of California, Irvine, USA
Elena Versari
The University of North Florida, USA
Volker M. Welter
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Updated 16-11-2023
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