TOPIA

Aims & Scope

TOPIA provides a venue for current research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond.

TOPIA emphasizes Canadian concerns and encourages multiple Canadian and transnational perspectives, traditions, and debates.

We publish original research and theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences, along with cultural and political debates, commentaries, interviews and book reviews.

TOPIA builds on Canadian critical traditions encompassing space, time, identity, and culture, while encouraging multiple regional, national, and transnational perspectives.

TOPIA explores the question of methods, providing a place for scholars to reflect on the implications of crossing disciplines while considering the specific locations of their intellectual work.

Areas of research relevant to TOPIA include: critical cultural studies; critical race theory; Indigeneity; decolonial, settler and postcolonial formations; nationalism, citizenship, multiculturalism, diaspora, and the Canadian nation state; gender and sexuality; popular and literary culture; cultural memory, museums, galleries, archives, and aesthetics; visuality, haptics, sound, and media; material cultures; biopolitics; city planning, architecture, landscape, and environmental studies; critical human-animal relations and posthumanism; digital cultures, platform studies, and artificial intelligence; the culture industries.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.125

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26810

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	25

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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 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.

• Bodies of Water, Human Rights and the Hydrocommons

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Astrida

• The Turn to Diaspora

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Lily

• Multiculturalism, Racism and Infectious Disease in the Global City: The Experience of the 2003 SARS Outbreak in Toronto

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Roger, Harris

• Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Ien, Jon

• “Straight Outta Mogadishu”: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices among Somali Youth in North American High Schools

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Murray

• “Their Blood Is There, and They Can't Throw It Out”: Honouring Black Canadian Geographies

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Katherine

• The Captive Maternal and Abolitionism

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Joy

• Second-hand Shaman: Imag(in)ing Indigeneity from Le Jeune to Pratt, Moore and Beresford

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Sam W.

• From a Fishy Place: Examining Canadian State Law Applied in the Daniels Decision from the Perspective of Métis Legal Orders

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Zoe

• Dreaming of Diasporas: Urban Developments and Transnational Identities in Contemporary Kolkata

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Pablo S.

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