Journal of Consumer Culture

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Consumer Culture is fully peer reviewed journal, that supports and promotes the continuing expansion in interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, opening up debates and areas of exploration.

Global in perspective and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.

The Journal of Consumer Culture brings together articles from the many social sciences and humanities in which consumer culture has become a significant focus.

It also engages with overarching contemporary perspectives on social transformation, all of which give an unprecedented importance to consumption in understanding social processes at both local and global levels.

The Journal of Consumer Culture covers a wide range of topics relating consumer culture to issues such as: globalization shopping and marketing the body ecommerce and the information society social divisions of gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity commodification aestheticisation and virtuality science and technology studies environmental critiques popular and material culture identity taste, style and fashion classical and contemporary social theory economic sociology work production and design media and cultural consumption.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.5
2024	2.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2276

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	635

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.540

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	71

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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, Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Psychology 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.

• Consumption and Theories of Practice

  Citation: 1819

  Authors: Alan

• Production, Consumption, Prosumption

  Citation: 1431

  Authors: George, Nathan

• Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change

  Citation: 723

  Authors: Tom

• Consumers, Producers and Practices

  Citation: 623

  Authors: Elizabeth, Mika

• Putting Consumers to Work

  Citation: 519

  Authors: Detlev, Samuel K., Aron

• After taste: Culture, consumption and theories of practice

  Citation: 453

  Authors: Alan

• The Craft Consumer

  Citation: 372

  Authors: Colin

• Brands

  Citation: 353

  Authors: Adam

• `Meat, Mask, Burden`

  Citation: 336

  Authors: Alison

• Consuming Life

  Citation: 334

  Authors: Zygmunt

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