Science Fiction Film and Television

Aims & Scope

Science Fiction Film and Television is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year by Liverpool University Press.

Founded by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside), the journal is edited by Gerry Canavan (Marquette University), Dan Hassler-Forest (Utretcht University) and Anindita Banerjee (Cornell University), with an international board of advisory editors.

Science Fiction Film and Television encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of science fiction studies, film studies and television studies.

The journal invites submissions on all areas of sf film and television, from Hollywood productions to Korean or Turkish sf film, from SyFy productions to the origins of sf tv in Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers or The Quatermass Experiment.

We encourage papers which consider neglected texts, propose innovative ways of looking at canonical texts, or explore the tensions and synergies that emerge from the interaction of genre and medium.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.109

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	28636

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	19

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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.

• Maternal back/grounds in<i>Children of Men</i>Notes toward an Arendtian biopolitics

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Sarah

• Introduction: Science fiction and biopolitics

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Sherryl

• Race and revenge fantasies in <i>Avatar, District 9</i> and <i>Inglourious Basterds</i>

  Citation: 13

  Authors: John

• Re-casting nature as feminist space in <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i>

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Michelle

• ‘When you get there, you will already be there’

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Dan

• Archive: <i>Femmes Futures</i> : one hundred years of female representation in sf cinema

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Dean

• The dispersible television text: theorising moments of the new <i>Doctor Who</i>

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Matt

• Digital anxiety and the new verité horror and sf film

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Barry

• When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Greg

• Hybrid stories: Examining the future of transmedia narrative

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Tom

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