Public Culture
Last updated ISSN 0899-2363
Public Culture is published by Duke University Press 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 Public Culture concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Public Spaces through Art
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- South Asian Cinema and Culture
- Music History and Culture
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Race, History, and American Society
- African history and culture studies
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0899-2363, 1527-8018 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,316 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | publicculture.org/ |
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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