Journal of Popular Television

Aims & Scope

Journal of Popular Television is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal designed to promote and encourage scholarship on all aspects of popular television, whether fictional or non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and comedy.

The journal is rooted in the belief that popular television continues to play a major cultural, political and social role, and thus seeks interdisciplinary contributions that contextualize programmes, genres, personalities and phenomena.

The journal seeks to be equally responsive to contemporary developments in television production and within television criticism and theory, and to historical approaches and re-evaluation of canonical and non-canonical texts.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.316

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16127

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	30

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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.

• Killing us softly: Investigating the aesthetics, philosophy and influence of Nordic Noir television

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Glen

• When public service drama travels: The internationalization of Danish television drama and the associated production funding models

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Pia Majbritt, Jakob Isak, Anne Marit

• Nordic Noir challenging ‘the language of advantage’: Setting, light and language as production values in Danish television series

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Pia Majbritt, Anne Marit

• Challenges for sustaining local audio-visual ecosystems: Analysis of financing and production of domestic TV fiction in small media markets

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Tim, Tom, Sanne

• A major boost for gender equality or more of the same? The television coverage of female athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Edward M., Alina, John S.

• Television drama production in small nations: Mobilities in a changing ecology

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Ruth, Caitriona

• My Little Pony, tolerance is magic: Gender policing and Brony anti-fandom

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Bethan

• ‘Dogmas’ for television drama: The ideas of ‘one vision’, ‘double storytelling’, ‘crossover’ and ‘producer’s choice’ in drama series from the Danish public service broadcaster DR

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Eva Novrup

• From ‘Redakteursfernsehen’ to ‘showrunners’: Commissioning editors and changing project networks in TV fiction from Germany

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Florian

• Looking through the upside down: Hyper-postmodernism and trans-mediality in the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Tracey

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