Cultural Studies
Last updated ISSN 0950-2386
Cultural Studies is published by Routledge in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cultural Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Music History and Culture
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Media Studies and Communication
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Cinema and Media Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Routledge |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0950-2386, 1466-4348 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,073 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/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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