Mind, Culture, and Activity

Aims & Scope

Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA) is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed articles that examine the relationships between the human mind, the sociocultural environments they inhabit, and the way that mind and culture are constituted in a wide variety of human activities.

We seek to promote dialogue among different schools of thought about these relationships, and encourage both interdisciplinary and international contributions.

Particular emphasis is placed upon empirical research grounded in theoretical approaches that locate culture and activity at the center of attempts to understand human experience and research that attends to the methodological problems associated with the analysis of human action in everyday activities.

When empirical results are part of a submission, the journal typically publishes research that is primarily qualitative.

Submissions are to be grounded in social theory, in particular Cultural-historical Activity Theory, although other theoretical approaches are welcome if they are interesting to the readership.

We consider several types of articles: substantial contributions that present theoretical research or syntheses of theoretical and empirical research devoted to a significant topic (up to 8,000 words); commentaries responding to articles published in MCA (up to 2,500 words); and creative works (up to 2,500 words).

We also include book reviews commissioned by the Editors (up to 2,000 words), and shorter book notes.

Please keep in mind when you are preparing a manuscript that our readership includes anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, linguists, educators, and interdisciplinary scholars.

Please avoid jargon that is familiar only to researchers in one field.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	1.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.987

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	65

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4931

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	194

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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 Neuroscience, 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.

• Rethinking diversity: Hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space

  Citation: 798

  Authors: Kris D., Patricia, Carlos

• Across the Scales of Time: Artifacts, Activities, and Meanings in Ecosocial Systems

  Citation: 650

  Authors: Jay L.

• Teaching, as Learning, in Practice

  Citation: 647

  Authors: Jean

• On Interobjectivity

  Citation: 617

  Authors: Bruno

• How to Study Thinking in Everyday Life: Contrasting Think-Aloud Protocols With Descriptions and Explanations of Thinking

  Citation: 437

  Authors: K. Anders, Herbert A.

• Relational Interdependence Between Social and Individual Agency in Work and Working Life

  Citation: 264

  Authors: Stephen

• The Object of Activity: Making Sense of the Sense-Maker

  Citation: 210

  Authors: Victor

• From mediated actions to heterogenous coalitions: four generations of activity-theoretical studies of work and learning

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Yrjö, Annalisa

• Massively Multiplayer Online Video Gaming as Participation in a Discourse

  Citation: 192

  Authors: Constance A.

• Analyzing Children's Learning and Development in Everyday Settings from a Cultural-Historical Wholeness Approach

  Citation: 188

  Authors: Mariane

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