Science as Culture

Aims & Scope

Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational.

Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders.

In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine.

Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society.

Science mediates our cultural experience.

It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology.

Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising.

Many films, artworks and novels express popular concerns about these developments.

In a society where icons of progress are drawn from science, technology and medicine, they are either celebrated or demonised.

Often their progress is feared as ’unnatural’, while their critics are labelled ’irrational’.

Public concerns are rebuffed by ostensibly value-neutral experts and positivist polemics.

Yet the culture of science is open to study like any other culture.

Cultural studies analyses the role of expertise throughout society.

Many journals address the history, philosophy and social studies of science, its popularisation, and the public understanding of society.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.849

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	52

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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, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Engineering 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 Californian ideology

  Citation: 575

  Authors: Richard, Andy

• Creating Public Alienation: Expert Cultures of Risk and Ethics on GMOs

  Citation: 362

  Authors: Brian

• Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies

  Citation: 339

  Authors: Sheila, Sang-Hyun

• Circulations and metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborg) cities

  Citation: 322

  Authors: Erik

• The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions

  Citation: 289

  Authors: Clark A., Alastair, Christopher F.

• Living cities: Towards a politics of conviviality

  Citation: 288

  Authors: Steve, Sarah

• The Molecularization of Race: Institutionalizing Human Difference in Pharmacogenetics Practice

  Citation: 194

  Authors: Duana

• Species of Biocapital

  Citation: 190

  Authors: Stefan

• Marketing and making carbon dumps: Commodification, calculation and counterfactuals in climate change mitigation

  Citation: 176

  Authors: Larry

• Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Julie

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