Northern Lights

Aims & Scope

Northern Lights is a peer-reviewed international publication dedicated to the study of film and media.

The journal focuses on the interplay between film and media and their cultural and social context.

Film and media have emerged as important institutions of modern society at the same time as mobile and interactive media technologies become integrated into the fabric of wider culture and society.

The development of new social networks, changes in political communication and governance and the changing relationship between art, culture and commercial markets are important aspects of these new dynamics.

Northern Lights is published once a year and takes the form of a book-length anthology of articles related to a specific theme.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.116

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27701

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	8

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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

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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.

• The mediatization of religion: A theory of the media as agents of religious change

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Stig

• Political communication in an age of visual connectivity: Exploring Instagram practices among Swedish politicians

  Citation: 84

  Authors: Mattias, Andreas

• Generation, life course and news media use in Sweden 1986–2011

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Oscar, Lennart

• Audience views on user-generated content: exploring the value of news from the bottom up

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Karin, Andrew, Claire

• The historical transformation of cultural journalism

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Nete Nrgaard

• Towards a typology of cross-media news consumption: a qualitativequantitative synthesis

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Kim Christian, Christian

• Age, generation and the media

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Göran, Eli

• ‘Who introduced Granny to Facebook?’: An exploration of everyday family interactions in web-based communication environments

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Andra, Virge

• Producer-centric versus participation-centric: On the shaping of mobile media

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Oscar

• The views of the news: The role of political newspapers in a changing media landscape

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Stig

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