Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Aims & Scope

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies publishes articles on Latin American culture and on theoretical and historical approaches to cultural production in Latin America, including Caribbean, Latino/a and other diasporic, trans-regional formations.

Multidisciplinary work defining and proposing new areas of research and debate is especially welcome.

We encourage contributions on the full range of cultural objects, practices, and expressions (including literature, film, visual arts, music), as well as the informal structures of meaning and communication at societal and sub-cultural levels.

We welcome work that engages disciplines such as film and media studies, literary criticism, anthropology, gender and queer studies, communication, history and memory studies, and other areas of analysis.

We are interested in work which investigates multiple modernities and the effects on societies and social practice of modernization and globalization, as well as articles that reflect on the plural meanings of culture and cultural field, and the place of cultural theory.

Engagements with instances of hybridity and transculturation, including the limitations of their conceptual reach, are also welcome; as are articles proposing original directions for their analysis through alternative ethnographies and epistemologies.

Work that explores new methods and new areas of investigation, including the critical renewal of cultural studies itself as a transversal disciplinary and political project, is particularly encouraged.

We invite articles on all relevant periods, from colonial times to the present.

There is a review section which carries authoritative review articles on the state of the art in given fields.

Other formats such as position papers, interviews, visual artistic production, chronicles and debates may also be considered for publication.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20836

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	35

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.205

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

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.

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• 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.

• I am where i think: Epistemology and the colonial difference

  Citation: 110

  Authors: Walter D.

• Cultural studies and literary criticism at the crossroads of values

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Beatriz

• Mob outrages: reflections on the media construction of the masses in Venezuela (April 2000–January 2003)

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Luis

• Negotiating with the disciplines. A conversation on Latin American Subaltern studies

  Citation: 55

  Authors: John, James

• For whom the eye cries: memory, monumentality, and the ontologies of violence in peru

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Paulo

• Why Do I Do Cultural Studies?

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Abril

• Cultural studies questionnaire

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Beatriz

• Postmemory Cinema and the Future of the past in Albertina Carri's<i>Los Rubios</i>

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Gabriela

• Processes of transculturation in Latin American narrative

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Angel

• Cultural studies questionnaire

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Walter D.

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