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International Journal of Cultural Studies
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International Journal of Cultural Studies

1367-8779

Published by: SAGE

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1198 6 7 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 8
Documents by Best Scientists*: 9
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 56
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.693
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at International Journal of Cultural Studies?

International Journal of Cultural Studies mainly tackles studies in Media studies, Gender studies, Politics, Advertising and Cultural studies. Issues in Media studies were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Context (language use), Anthropology, Law, Public relations and Social science. The Gender studies works featured in it incorporate elements from Identity (social science) and Globalization.

The journal features Politics research that overlaps with concepts in Aesthetics. The journal links adjacent topics like Advertising with The Internet.

  • Media studies (28.68%)
  • Gender studies (18.61%)
  • Politics (15.15%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Home and away Narratives of migration and estrangement (378 citations)
  • The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence (374 citations)
  • Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication (308 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal of Cultural Studies:

The most cited publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Advertising, Media studies, Public relations, Politics and Gender studies. The most cited publications go beyond the discussion of Media studies and connect it with closely related disciplines like

  • New media, which have a strong connection to Social science,
  • Ethnography that intertwine with fields like Digital media.. The journal papers explore research in Gender studies alongside concepts in Identity (social science) and other areas of study in Narrative.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in International Journal of Cultural Studies deals with Media studies, Politics, Aesthetics, Visual arts and Social media. Media studies research presented in International Journal of Cultural Studies encompasses a variety of subjects, including Phenomenon, Globalization, Gossip, Cult and Drama. Politics research featured in International Journal of Cultural Studies incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Citizen media, Gender studies and Fandom.

Gender studies research in it involves the investigation of Discipline studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Affect (psychology). The overlapping concepts between Meaning (linguistics) and Public relations are the key highlights of Power (social and political) study. While International Journal of Cultural Studies focused on Cultural studies, it was also able to explore topics like Epistemology and Context (language use).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • In between the global and the local: Mapping the geographies of Netflix as a multinational service: (6 citations)
  • Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan: (2 citations)
  • Identity transformation, stigma power, and mental wellbeing of Chinese eSports professional players: (2 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 International Journal of Cultural Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John Hartley (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael Keane (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mark Gibson (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Graeme Turner (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Handel Kashope Wright (6 papers) absent 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 International Journal of Cultural Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Queensland University of Technology (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • RMIT University (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (14 papers) absent at the last 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, 10.94% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.51% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.30% of all publications and 57.89% 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.

Additional Information Related to Studying Cultural Studies

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Top Publications

  • Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

    (2020)
    119 Citations
  • Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan:

    Larissa Hjorth;Deborah Lupton

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Introduction: Caring media futures:

    Margaret Gibson;Larissa Hjorth;Jaz Hee-jeong Choi

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Situating ‘careful surveillance’

    Mark Andrejevic;Hugh Davies;Ruth DeSouza;Larissa Hjorth

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Precarious work and precarious urban spaces: Divergent experiences of pandemic creativity

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Story-weaving: <i>homo narrans</i>, popular culture and the role of stories in tourism

    (2024)
    1 Citations
  • ‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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