The British Journal of Aesthetics
Last updated ISSN 0007-0904
The British Journal of Aesthetics is published by Oxford University Press in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,789.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The British Journal of Aesthetics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- Samuel Beckett and Modernism
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Art History and Market Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0007-0904, 1468-2842 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,789 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,964 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.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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