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
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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.
Editor-in-Chief 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
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