Critical Arts
Last updated ISSN 0256-0046
Critical Arts is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Critical Arts concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- South African History and Culture
- African history and culture studies
- Media Studies and Communication
- Cinema and Media Studies
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0256-0046, 1992-6049 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,475 |
| Publishing since | 1980 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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