Journal of Contemporary Painting

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Contemporary Painting (JCP) combines peer-reviewed scholarship, particularly that emerging from practice-based research, with new writing and visual essays by academics and practitioners.

Research essays will complement reviews and interviews that are responsive to current debates in painting and related art practices.

The Journal is aimed at a broad readership encompassing academics, critics, writers, artists, curators and the gallery-going public.

JCP responds to the territory and practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense, treating painting as a context for discussion and exploring its sphere of influence, rather than defining it as a medium specific debate.

The Journal combines a thematic approach with an open call, each issue opening up and problematising different facets of contemporary painting.

As well as contributions to current debates on contemporary art, the Journal also publishes archival texts alongside current responsive articles allowing new debates to emerge, based on the premise that the contemporary cannot be understood without a self-reflexive knowledge of history.

The Journal will also work with artists and other scholars to produce original visual essays.

In focusing on the territory of painting practice, JCP takes an international approach, providing a forum for the exchange of views drawn from a wide geographical field.

The Journal maps where painting is, acting as a platform for international scholarship in this area.

The Journal also functions as a multidisciplinary discursive space in which a range of subject specialisms can be brought to bear on the culture of painting.

JCP creates a place where scholars and practitioners from many disciplines can converge and exchange ideas on a common object of study.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	<0.1
2024	0.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.102

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29543

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3

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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, 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.

• Tilt Brush painting: Chronotopic adventures in a physical-virtual threshold

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Tara

• Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an exhibition “CARE”

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Mierle Laderman

• Forging reality: Surface and reductionism in the work of Dick Bengtsson

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Simon

• Whose hobbyhorse now?: A revised Foreword for Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History1

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Jennifer

• Baggage reclaim: Some thoughts on feminism and painting

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Rebecca

• Painting as a post-digital formalism

  Citation: 2

  Authors: James Eley Haldane

• Writing from the other side: Critical reflections on the calligraphy of Zhang Qiang

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Feng

• Before and after photography

  Citation: 2

  Authors: David

• The Polycephalus

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Michael

• The most dangerous game

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Mario

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