Animation

Aims & Scope

Animation is increasingly pervasive and implemented in many ways in many disciplines. animation: an interdisciplinary journal provides the first cohesive, international peer-reviewed publishing platform for animation that unites contributions from a wide range of research agendas and creative practice.

The journal's scope is very comprehensive, yet its focus is clear and simple.

The journal addresses all animation made using all known (and yet to be developed) techniques - from 16th century optical devices to contemporary digital media - revealing its implications on other forms of time-based media expression past, present and future.

Special features include new theories and methodologies, radical contemporary practice, microanalyses of individual films, archive news, teaching, learning and research resources and industrial innovations foregrounding specific disciplines and their interrelations with others. animation: an interdisciplinary journal is a dynamic forum for promoting exchange between a multitude of disciplines and will facilitate a much-needed academic dialogue for the interdisciplinary nature of animation studies.

It is essential and stimulating reading for academics, researchers, students, curators and practitioners in animation, film and media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, architecture, art & design, computer sciences, games studies and visual culture.

The journal encourages both established and emerging scholars.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.251

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	18532

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	29

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Rethinking Plasticity: The Politics and Production of the Animated Image

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Yuriko

• Vanishing Point: Spatial Composition and the Virtual Camera

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Mike

• The Veiled Genealogies of Animation and Cinema

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Donald

• The Line and the Animorph or `Travel Is More than Just A to B'

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Vivian

• Platonic Sex: Perversion and Shôjo Anime (Part One)

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Thomas

• Whole-Screen Metamorphosis and the Imagined Camera (Notes on Perspectival Movement in Animation)

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Ryan

• The Many Faces of Internationalization in Japanese Anime

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Amy Shirong

• Bones of Contention: Thoughts on the Study of Animation

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Andrew

• Absence, Excess and Epistemological Expansion: Towards a Framework for the Study of Animated Documentary

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Annabelle Honess

• Never Quite the Right Size: Scaling the Digital in CG Cinema

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Adam

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