Poetics

Aims & Scope

Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts.

Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics - within which promising lines of research on culture, media and the arts have been developed.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.176

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	82

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3678

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	496

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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 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.

• Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings

  Citation: 1172

  Authors: Jan A.G.M.

• Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of U.S. government arts funding

  Citation: 807

  Authors: Paul, Manish, David

• Understanding audience segmentation: From elite and mass to omnivore and univore

  Citation: 731

  Authors: Richard A.

• The field of cultural production, or: The economic world reversed

  Citation: 650

  Authors: Pierre

• Problems in comparative research: The example of omnivorousness

  Citation: 359

  Authors: Richard A.

• Introduction—Topic models: What they are and why they matter

  Citation: 323

  Authors: John W., Petko

• Arts participation as cultural capital in the United States, 1982–2002: Signs of decline?

  Citation: 307

  Authors: Paul, Toqir

• ‘A very complicated version of freedom’: Conditions and experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries

  Citation: 291

  Authors: David, Sarah

• Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's theory of tastes from its critics

  Citation: 279

  Authors: Douglas B.

• A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative

  Citation: 275

  Authors: Keith

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