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Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society.
Science mediates our cultural experience. It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology. Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising. Many films, artworks and novels express popular concerns about these developments.
In a society where icons of progress are drawn from science, technology and medicine, they are either celebrated or demonised. Often their progress is feared as ’unnatural’, while their critics are labelled ’irrational’. Public concerns are rebuffed by ostensibly value-neutral experts and positivist polemics.
Yet the culture of science is open to study like any other culture. Cultural studies analyses the role of expertise throughout society. Many journals address the history, philosophy and social studies of science, its popularisation, and the public understanding of society.
Amidst these journals, Science as Culture is ’the only source of critique of the way science is going’, as one of our readers put it. Not simply criticism, critique analyses the underlying frameworks, assumptions and terms of reference. It emphasizes the fundamental role of values, interests, ideology and purposes -- which would otherwise remain hidden in the guise of neutrality and objectivity. Science as Culture places science within the wider debate on the values which constitute culture; it is not the journal for a particular academic discipline.
Science as Culture encompasses people’s experiences -- at the workplace, the cinema, the computer, the hospital, the home and the academy. The articles are readable, attractive, lively, often humorous, and always jargon-free. Science as Culture aims to be read at leisure, and to be a pleasure.
Book Reviews: Offers of book reviews are welcome. See the list, editorial guidance and contact email address here.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, papers are subject to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submissions can be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/csac.
If you are considering an article submission to Science as Culture, you can watch this short video with co-Editor Kean Birch where he offers insights on the review process, what to consider when submitting to the journal, and some general tips on academic writing.
Journal metrics
Usage
120K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.6 (2023) 5 year IF
5.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.550 (2023) SNIP
0.828 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
160 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
28% 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.
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.
Editors: Les Levidow - Open University, UK Kean Birch - York University, Canada
Associate Editors: Kelly Bronson - University of Ottawa, Canada Pierre Delvenne - University of Liège, Belgium Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner - Leiden University, Netherlands Matthew Kearnes - University of NSW, Australia Allison-Marie Loconto - Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), France David Moats - University of Helsinki, Finland Ruth Müller- Technical University of Munich, Germany Venla Oikkonen - University of Tampere, Finland Achim Rosemann - University of Cambridge, UK Johan Söderberg - Gothenburg University, Sweden
Book and Media Reviews Editors: Tess Doezema - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Mascha Gugganig - University of Munich, Germany For more information on the submission procedure for book and media reviews, pleasesee here. The email address for all book and media review requests is[email protected].
Social Media Editor: Mascha Gugganig - Technical University of Munich, Germany
Advisory Panel: Uli Beisel - Universität Bayreuth, Germany Kelly Bronson - University of Ottawa, Canada Jane Calvert - University of Edinburgh, UK Tess Doezema - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Ulrike Felt - University of Vienna, Austria Rider Foley - University of Virginia, USA Sarah Franklin - University of Cambridge, UK Vasilis Galis - IT University of Copengahen, Denmark Chris Hables Gray - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Matthias Gross - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany Mascha Gugganig - Technical University of Munich, Germany David J. Hess - Vanderbilt University, USA Amy Hinterberger - King's College London, UK Ine van Hoyweghen - KU Leuven, Belgium Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner - Leiden University, Netherlands Matthew Kearnes - University of NSW, Australia Daniel Kleinman - Boston University, USA Javier Lezaun - University of Oxford, UK Sonia Liff - Appleby Research, UK Allison-Marie Loconto - Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), France Emily Martin - New York University, USA Maureen McNeil - Lancaster University, UK Gert Meyers - Tilburg University, Netherlands Mike Michael - University of Exeter, UK Clark Miller - Arizona State University, USA Thaddeus Miller -UMASS, USA David Moats - University of Helsinki, Finland Sharlissa Moore - Michigan State University, USA Ruth Müller - Technical University of Munich, Germany Greg Myers - Lancaster University, UK Brigitte Nerlich - University of Nottingham, UK Venla Oikkonen - University of Helsinki, Finland Luigi Pellizzoni - University of Pisa, Italy Martyn Pickersgill - University of Edinburgh, UK Achim Rosemann - University of Cambridge, UK Achim Rosemann - University of Cambridge, UK Stevienna de Saille - University of Sheffield, UK Martin Savransky - Goldsmiths College, London, UK Deborah Benita Shaw - University of East London, UK Johan Söderberg - Gothenburg University, Sweden Charles Thorpe - University of California at San Diego, USA David Tyfield - Lancaster University, UK Kristoffer Whitney - Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA Logan Williams - Michigan State University, USA Teun Zuiderent-Jerak - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstracting and indexing
Science as Culture is currently abstracted and indexed in: Alternative Press Index Arts and Humanities Citation Index® Australian Research Council ERA list 2015 Baidu Scholar British Library Inside Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Arts & Humanities Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Social & Behavioral Sciences Clarivate Analytics: Current Bibliography of the History of Science Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded™ CNKI Scholar CNPIEC CnpLINKer Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) DTU Findit E-lib Breman EBSCO Databases Electronic Journals Library (EZB) European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi) Genamics JournalSeek Google Scholar IBR Online IBZ Online International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) JournalTOCs MEDLINE (articles relating to bioethics) Microsoft Academic Modern Language Association Bibliography National Library of China Naver Academic NHN Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals and Publishers Portico Publons SciBase Scopus™ - click here for current CiteScore Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Web of Science Wellcome Library WorldCat Local (OCLC) Zetoc
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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