About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a peer reviewed open access journal publishing from within the areas of art, media, popular culture and new technologies.
Global exchanges in the art and media world call for transversal theoretical revisions of national, international and regional ideas of cultural framings. It is our aim to publish academic articles departing from the growing cross-fertilisation of aesthetic, cultural and political questions in a contemporary culture. The journal calls for close studies of cases, art-works or media-productions in order to foster new thoughts, methods and theories.
Contributions can come from historical or contemporary cultural and aesthetic phenomenon or genres (from popular or vernacular culture to classical genres such as film, literature, music, visual arts and, theatre), as well as from research on aesthetics and culture from different theoretical and philosophical perspectives. These areas include:
- Media aesthetics
- Fine Arts and Artistic Research
- Media and Screen Cultures
- Philosophy of Contemporary Art
The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture accepts original articles and operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 134K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.467 (2023) SNIP
- 0.122 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 71 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 222 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 7 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 4% 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
John Sundholm - Stockholm University, Sweden
Anna Orrghen - Uppsala University, Sweden
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Lars Gustaf Andersson - Lund University, Sweden
Associate Editors
Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Christian Refsum, University of Oslo, Norway
Mika Elo, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Editorial Board
Sean Cubitt - Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Astrid Erll - Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Danuta Fjellestad - Uppsala University, Sweden
Asbjørn Grønstad - University of Bergen, Norway
Tom Gunning - University of Chicago, United States
Norman Klein - California Institute of the Arts, United States
Andrew Murphie - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Nikos Papastergiadis - University of Melbourne, Australia
Karin Sanders - University of California, Berkeley, United States
Astrid Söderbergh Widding - Stockholm University, Sweden
Frederik Tygstrup - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sven-Olov Wallenstein - Södertörn University College, Sweden
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
JournalSeek
MLA International Bibliography
Scopus (Elsevier)
Open access
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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
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