About this journal
Aims and scope
Art enables people to define their worlds, express themselves, and show their beliefs and values. Making, using and learning from artworks are fundamental to human social life, imagination and sensory engagement. Through art, ideas take physical and tangible form and become available for new forms of seeing, understanding and writing.
World Art is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars, students and art practitioners which considers art across time, place and culture. It aims to bring new insights and analysis to a wider, global audience. The journal promotes experimental and comparative approaches for studying human creativity, past and present. It provides a forum for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses.
World Art aims to:
• Explore what art is for people around the globe
• Encourage contributors to investigate the distribution of art, its dissemination and display; to review notions of centres and peripheries, and to challenge categories like the mainstream and the marginalized
• Welcome contributions that promote inter-cultural, inter-national, inter-practice and inter-disciplinary concerns. It encourages critical reflection at the intersections of theory, method and practice
• Enable new histories to emerge, aiming to complement traditional scholarly narratives and presentations about art
Submissions can take the form of:
• Research articles based on individual or collaborative research
• Visual essays prioritising images with a critical commentary
• Dialogues between scholars and practitioners
• Interventions exploring ideas across cultures, disciplines and practices
• Position papers giving voice to topical themes and debates
Audio and video materials and additional colour images may be included for the online version.
The journal is an English language publication, but submissions in other languages may be considered.
All contributions are single-anonymized peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. The Editors are supported by an international Advisory Board.
I find the journal's prospectus to be both innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to the arts.
Mary Jo Arnoldi (Smithsonian Institute, Washington)
World Art is presciently located on the cusp of artistic and academic concerns. It not only straddles but imaginatively scrabbles such boundaries.
Saurabh Dube (Colegio de México)
World Art is an exciting venture. I welcome efforts to overcome the division between art history and art practice.
Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
I find your journal very exciting.
James Moy (Ontario College of Art and Design)
World Art is an exciting project.
Chris Pinney (University College, London)
World Art is a great idea. There is no current publication approaching its ambitions for geographic spread, historical depth or intellectual rigor. Its intention to provide interdisciplinary, inter-textual and imaginative approaches to the collection, display, conservation and interpretation of visual and material cultures is unparalleled and warmly welcomed.
Henry Schwarz (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.)
Such an approach and such a journal are highly needed. I also subscribe to the insight, that 'creativity is as central to scholarly as to artistic work'. Academic circles neglect or even deny, all too often, the role of creativity/intuition in scholarship.
Paul Vandenbroeck (Interculturalism, Migration and Minority Research Centre, Leuven)
World Art is a journal whose aims I wholeheartedly endorse.
Jonathan Williams (British Museum, London)
Journal metrics
Usage
- 32K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.944 (2023) SNIP
- 0.175 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 51 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 52% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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
Professor George Lau, Professor, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Address: World Art journal (editors)
Sainsbury Centre - Crescent Wing
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ (UK)
E-mail: [email protected]
Advisory Board
John Mack (Chair), Emeritus Professor,Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Paul Basu, Professor of Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK
Joshua Bell, Curator (Globalization), Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Yiqiang Cao, Director, Advanced School of Art and Humanities, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Udo Goesswald, Director, Museum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Yuko Kikuchi, Reader, University of the Arts, London, UK
Ian McLean, Professor, University of Wollongong & University of Melbourne, Australia
Akira Matsuda, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Resources Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
Suzana Milevska, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia
Parul Mukherji, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Anitra Nettleton, Professor of History of Art, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Davide Quadrio, Curator, Director of Bizart & Arthub, Bangkok, Shanghai, Hongkong
Rosanna Raymond, Artist, London, UK, and Auckland, NZ
Allen Roberts, Professor, Department of World Arts & Cultures, University of California, USA
Roger Sansi, Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
Renato Silva, Professor of Modern Art, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Helaine Silverman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, USA
Robin Skeates, Professor in Archaeology, University of Durham, UK
Terry Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nicholas Thomas, Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Jonas Tinius, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Professor of Art History and Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Director of the Gorman Museum, University of California (Davis), USA
Bronwen Wilson, Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/ Indexed in:
- Anthropological Index Online
- Scopus
Open access
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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
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3 issues per year
Two issues of World Art are published each year. Some volumes are guest edited and, where appropriate, contributions will be grouped by theme. Issues alternate between those which are general in content and those which engage specific themes.
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