European Journal of Cultural Studies

Aims & Scope

European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international journal that publishes well-theorized empirical research from a wide variety of locations and disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and the social sciences.

Founded in Europe and edited from the Netherlands and the UK, the journal has a broad-ranging view of cultural studies, charting new questions and new research, and mapping the transformation of cultural studies to come.

The common denominator for the work published is in engagement with and a critical take on how power relations are (re)produced in everyday practices of meaning making.

They might concern gender, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, sexual preference, disability and other macro or micro sites of political struggle.

The topics covered by European Journal of Cultural Studies cover a wide range.

This is a result of our double focus on relations of power and processes of meaning making as the twin sides to how ‘culture’ is produced.

Topic areas include (among others): popular cultural forms and practices; music; consumer cultures; media, film and television culture; post-colonial criticism; cultural policy; citizenship, sexualities, youth culture and class relations; intersectional constructions of identity; populism; creative industries.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4741

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	775

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.010

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	62

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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.

• Postfeminist media culture

  Citation: 1562

  Authors: Rosalind

• The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

  Citation: 424

  Authors: Rosalind

• Algorithmic culture

  Citation: 392

  Authors: Ted

• Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device

  Citation: 251

  Authors: Kate, Jessa, Tero

• Comparing convivialities: Dreams and realities of living-with-difference

  Citation: 188

  Authors: Magdalena, Steven

• ‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis

  Citation: 181

  Authors: Melanie

• ‘Coming home’

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Anne-Marie

• Are we all cultural intermediaries now? An introduction to cultural intermediaries in context

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Jennifer Smith, Julian

• Doing citizenship

  Citation: 169

  Authors: Peter

• Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Ana Sofia, Rosalind

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