Culture, Theory and Critique

Aims & Scope

Culture, Theory and Critique is a refereed, interdisciplinary journal for the transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities and social sciences.

It aims to critique and reconstruct theories by interfacing them with one another and by relocating them in new sites and conjunctures.

This reconceptualisation of critical theories is achieved by: -assessing how well theories emerging from particular spatial, cultural, geographical and historical contexts travel and translate into new conjunctures; -confronting theories with their limitations and aporias through immanent critique or application to specific social, political or cultural phenomena; -interfacing theories from different intellectual, disciplinary and institutional settings.

Given its interdisciplinary character, Culture, Theory and Critique will appeal to anyone working at the interface between disciplines such as anthropology, critical geography, critical race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, ecology, gender, sexuality and queer studies, historiography, literary theory and criticism, film studies, media studies, philosophy, postcolonialism, science and technology studies, social and political theory and visual culture.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.210

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	19

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.70

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20573

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	44

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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 Social Sciences, 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.

• Invisible harms, invisible profits: a theory of the incentive to contaminate

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Lindsay

• Release the Moths: Critical Animal Studies and the Posthumanist Impulse

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Helena

• Asia is burning: Queer Asia as critique

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Howard, Alvin K.

• Volunteering as hope labour: the potential value of unpaid work experience for the un- and under-employed

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Kori

• Pictorial versus Iconic Turn: Two Letters

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Gottfried, W. J. T.

• What Do Drawings Want?

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Michael

• The (Im)possibility of Interdisciplinarity: Lessons from Constructing a Theoretical Framework for Digital Ecosystems

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Paolo, Mehita, Robin

• Tricks, Lies, and Mobile Phones: ‘Phone Friend’ Stories in Papua New Guinea

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Barbara

• Eastern orientations: Thai middle-class gay desire for ‘white Asians’

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Dredge Byung’chu

• Digital tendencies: intuition, algorithmic thought and new social movements

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Carolyn

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