About this journal
Aims and scope
South Asian Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary journal designed to respond to the growing interest in South Asian popular culture within the different subject disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. South Asian popular culture is defined in a broad and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass media, ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. Central to the formation of popular cultures are articulations of the economic, social and political spheres and the journal welcomes contributions that will highlight these issues.
South Asian Popular Culture is of interest to cultural, media, and film studies, as well as social geography, history, diaspora studies, postmodern and postcolonial theoretical formulations, and contributions are invited from these fields. The journal critically examines from theoretical and empirical perspectives the production, distribution, and consumption of South Asian popular cultural forms within the subcontinent and across international borders. Attention to the use of popular cultures in the South Asian diasporas as well as the development of traditional cultural practices in forging hybrid forms is also an important focus. As such the journal is a forum for authors from around the world.
The journal of South Asian Popular Culture seeks to serve as an innovative and informative venue to discuss and debate the emergence and vibrancy of new forms of social, economic, cultural and political strategies and representations including those in film, music, radio, television, the press, fiction, sports, visual and cyber cultures, fashion, dance and sexuality. These forms, in fact, pose a challenge to be understood within a context of culture that enshrines a transnational focus and open attitude towards difference and diversity. The journal also encourages the exploration of how South Asian cultural practice has developed within wider parameters of transnational policies of art and culture.
South Asian Popular Culture also features a regular section entitled Working Notes that includes contributions from cultural practitioners within South Asian popular culture (film, radio, and television makers, musicians, artists, personnel, cultural activists, fashion designers, and sexuality campaigners). It offers original insights into their work and current debates by way of interviews, diary notes, short essays, visual images and discussions.
South Asian Popular Culture welcomes new and original research articles for consideration for peer review. We invite clearly written, well researched, using current theoretical paradigms and methodology, and academically rigorous work of international standing. Please see research articles that have been published in previous issues of South Asian Popular Culture for examples and please do read the Aims and Scope of the Journal.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 45K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.464 (2023) SNIP
- 0.185 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 5% acceptance rate
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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
Editors:
Rajinder Kumar Dudrah - Birmingham City University, UK
Gita Rajan - Fairfield University, USA
Associate Editor:
Souraj Dutta - Birmingham City University, UK
Advisory Board:
Poonam Arora - University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA
Nandi Bhatia - Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Ann David - University of Roehampton, UK
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, USA
Wimal Dissanayake - University of Hawaii, USA
Rachel Dwyer - University of London, UK
K Hariharan - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vamsee K Juluri - University of San Francisco, USA
Radha Krishnan - University of California, Irvine, USA
Sarita Malik , University of Brunel, UK
Chandra Talapade Mohanty - Syracuse Unversity, USA
Ashis Nandy - New Delhi, India
Bhikhu Parekh - University of Hull, UK
Amit Rai - Florida State University, USA
Ashish Rajadhyaksha - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India
Subramaniam Shankar - University of Hawaii, USA
Nitasha Sharma - Northwestern University, USA
Shailja Sharma - DePaul University, USA
Radha Subramanyam - New York, USA
Shashwati Talukdar - Philadelphia, USA
E. Dawson Varughese - Independent Scholar, UK and India
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: ABC-CLIO; British Humanities Index; Electronic Collections Online; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; RILM; Scopus and Sociological Abstracts.
Open access
South Asian Popular Culture 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
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- 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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