Early Popular Visual Culture

Aims & Scope

Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930.

EPVC examines the use and exploitation of popular cultural forms such as (but not limited to) cinema, photography, the magic lantern, panoramas, music hall, illustrated books and periodicals, cartoon strips, circus, stage performances, posters and caricatures in the fields of entertainment, education, science, advertising and the domestic environment, and is primarily concerned with the evolving social, technological and economic contexts which such popular cultural products inhabited and influenced.

The journal publishes a range of original historical, theoretical and methodological articles on early popular visual culture, as well as offering selected facsimile materials of obscure and rare sources, reviews and research reports.

There are also regular special thematic issues.

It is published in English only.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27280

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	9

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.120

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	11

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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 and 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.

• A medium is always born twice …1

  Citation: 73

  Authors: André, Philippe

• From ‘the horse in motion’ to ‘man in motion’

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Kaveh

• THE POLYTECHNIC GHOST

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Jeremy

• A short history of superimposition: From spirit photography to early cinema

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Simone

• The secret life of plants: Visualizing vegetative movement, 1880–1903

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Oliver

• Intermediality: Disciplinary flux or formalist retrenchment?

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Andrew

• A ‘proper point of view’: The panorama and some of its early media iterations

  Citation: 16

  Authors: William

• The mysterious affair of styles in the age of kine‐attractography

  Citation: 15

  Authors: André, Philippe

• <i>Aeronautikon!</i>or, the journey of the balloon panorama

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Erkki

• The magic lantern: open medium

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Joe

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