International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is a peer-reviewed journal aiming at analysing social and cultural communication processes with an interdisciplinary approach.

MCP pays attention to contemporary issues striving to encourage academic responses to pressing world events, offering policy-oriented thinking.

The content focus is critical, in-depth analysis and engaged research of the intersections of communication and media studies, sociology, politics, economics, and cultural studies with the aim of keeping academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics.

The journal publishes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide and diverse community of researchers, and from any methodological and epistemological approach.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.172

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	22968

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	18

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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.

• ‘Awaken your incredible’: Love your body discourses and postfeminist contradictions

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Rosalind, Ana Sofia

• The Internet, deliberative democracy, and power: Radicalizing the public sphere

  Citation: 121

  Authors: Lincoln

• Public engagement with climate change: What do we know and where do we go from here?

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Lorraine, Saffron, Irene

• Gendered risks and opportunities? Exploring teen girls' digitized sexual identities in postfeminist media contexts

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Jessica, Katarina Eriksson

• Disclosure of personal and contact information by young people in social networking sites: An analysis using Facebook profiles as an example

  Citation: 79

  Authors: Tatjana, Elena, Georgina, Yiannis, Aysu

• Tracing Twitter: The rise of a microblogging platform

  Citation: 66

  Authors: JOSÉ VAN

• Can social network sites enable political action?

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Danah

• The new risk communities: Social networking sites and risk

  Citation: 46

  Authors: Yasmin

• Pornographication: A discourse for all seasons

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Clarissa

• The study of the political economy of the media in the twenty-first century

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Janet

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