Poetics
Last updated ISSN 0304-422X
Poetics is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,390.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Poetics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Music History and Culture
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Media Influence and Health
- Art History and Market Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0304-422X, 1872-7514 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,390 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,975 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/poetics |
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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