Pacific Arts
Last updated ISSN 1018-4252
Pacific Arts is published by eScholarship Publishing, University of California in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Pacific Arts concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
Key facts
| Publisher | eScholarship Publishing, University of California |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1018-4252, 2769-108X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 163 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | escholarship.org/uc/pacificarts |
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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