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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

1532-7086

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/csc

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1223 9 15 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 14
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 46
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.456
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies?

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies aims to foster the development of research in Gender studies, Aesthetics, Politics, Autoethnography and Law. Gender studies study tackled is connected to the field of Identity (social science). It explores issues in Aesthetics which can be linked to other research areas like Literature, Narrative and Pedagogy.

The majority of Literature studies presented zero in on Poetry. It connects the study in Pedagogy with the closely related area of Epistemology. Issues in Politics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Social science and Political economy.

Many of the studies tackled connect Autoethnography with a similar field of study like Ethnography. The Ethnography study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Reflexivity. It links adjacent topics like Law with Media studies.

  • Gender studies (22.75%)
  • Aesthetics (18.86%)
  • Politics (15.73%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Manifesto for Ethnography (316 citations)
  • Challenging Neoliberalism's New World Order: The Promise of Critical Pedagogy: (147 citations)
  • The Wonder of Data (146 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies:

The published articles investigate studies in Social science, Epistemology, Gender studies, Politics and Aesthetics. While work presented in the most cited articles provide substantial information on Politics, it also covers topics in Globalization and Media studies. The works on Aesthetics tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Certainty and Critical pedagogy.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Autoethnography, Aesthetics, Ethnography, Media studies and Gender studies. The Autoethnography works featured in it incorporate elements from Indigenous, Narrative, Embodied cognition, Lens (geology) and Psychoanalysis. The research on Aesthetics featured in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies combines topics in other fields like Affect (linguistics), Poetry, The arts and Sensation.

Research in Visual arts and the interrelating topic of Popular culture, Cultural memory and Experiential learning were among the subjects of interest in the Ethnography studies discussed in it. Media studies research presented in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies encompasses a variety of subjects, including Racism, Malcontent and Social practice. The work on Gender studies tackled in it brings together disciplines like Tamil and Spanish Civil War.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Higher Education and the Ethic of Care: Finding a Way Forward During a Global Pandemic: (2 citations)
  • On Holding Various Truths to (Not) Be Self-Evident: Leading During the Dual Pandemics of 2020 as a Racialized Body (1 citations)
  • Writing as Inquiry During a Pandemic (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Norman K. Denzin (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Peter McLaren (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael D. Giardina (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Henry A. Giroux (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bryant Keith Alexander (10 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (63 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Arizona State University (25 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Pennsylvania State University (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 3.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.46% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.46% of all publications and 42.86% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Unapologetic Educational Research: Addressing Anti-Blackness, Racism, and White Supremacy

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Arctic Terns: Writing and Art-Making Our Way Through the Pandemic

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • “Whales Tales” On the Run: Anonymizing Ethnographic Data in an Age of Openness:

    Robert A. Rhoads

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • The Role of Ethnography as Ethical and Policy-Relevant Public Scholarship:

    Randall F. Clemens;William G. Tierney

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • What Do We Want to Tell? And to Whom Do We Wish to Tell It?: The Ethnographer’s Ethical Dilemma:

    Yvonna S. Lincoln

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Thinking (Now) Out of Place? Scripting and Performing Collective Dissent Inside the Corporatized University:

    Brendon Munge;Alison L. Black;Deborah Heck;Catherine Manathunga

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • There Was a Queer Guy: A Performative Poetic Inquiry Into Heterosexism

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • “Seven Days in Lockdown”: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health

    (2022)
    1 Citations
  • Emergent Life: Opening Our Lives to Differenciation and to Response-Ability, as We Turn Our Critical Gaze on the Enunciative Regularities That Hold the World the Same

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Cowboys and Pirates in Mental Health Care: A Musical Autoethnography

    (2020)
    0 Citations

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