Studies in Eastern European Cinema

Aims & Scope

Studies in Eastern European Cinema provides the world-wide community of Eastern European film and media scholars with a platform for debate.

The journal covers screen cultures of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine, just as well as cinemas of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia as now non-existent states with historic cinematic tradition.

It encourages authors to cover production, consumption and textual characteristics of films and other forms of the moving image and locate the material in national, as well as transnational perspectives, reflecting the convergence of various trends in world cinema, such as festivalization and the emergence of new distribution platforms that simultaneously re-establish and transcend geopolitical and cultural borders.

The journal editors are keen to publish articles on all types of moving image, both arthouse and popular films, television programmes and music videos, films produced for theatrical release, as well as amateur films and those for educational, industrial and advertising purposes.

Studies in Eastern European Cinema is edited by a board of experienced, internationally recognised experts in the field.

The journal publishes 3 issues per year.

Each year one or two special issues are published, devoted to phenomena which are under-researched in the existing literature.

We are open to suggestions for specific themes from potential guest editors.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.219

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20098

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	29

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• 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.

• ‘Cinema of normalization’: changes of stylistic model in post-Yugoslav cinema after the 1990s

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Jurica

• Eastern European film festivals: streaming through the covid-19 pandemic

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Jan, Ewa

• Leave to live? Placeless people in contemporary Hungarian and Romanian films of return

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Hajnal

• Roman Polanski (and Others) on Trial

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ewa

• Eastern European cinema: old and new approaches

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ewa

• Breaking the wave: A commentary on ‘Black Wave polemics: Rhetoric as aesthetic’ by Greg DeCuir, Jr

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Nebojša

• Sport, cinema and the national imaginary in<i>Dream Team: 1935</i>

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Klāra

• Transgressing boundaries between film and music videos: Smarzowski, Kolski, and music videos in Poland

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Paulina

• Violated sex: rape, nation and representation of female characters in Yugoslav new film and black wave cinema

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Vesi

• Devices of Cultural Europeanization

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Constantin, Claudiu

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