West 86th

Aims & Scope

Focusing on the decorative arts, design history, and material culture, West 86th provides a forum for new research into all aspects of the content, meaning, and significance of material objects in history.

West 86th publishes scholarly articles; review articles; primary source translations; critical book, catalogue, and exhibition reviews; research inquiries; letters to the editor; and supplementary digital material integral to articles.

Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York City.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.117

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27591

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4

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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, 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.

• Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Michael

• In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Meaning

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Pamela H.

• Renaissance Dress, Cultures of Making, and the Period Eye

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Ulinka

• “God’s Wonder”: Marble as Medium and the Natural Image in Mosques and Modernism

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Finbarr Barry

• Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part I

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Debora L.

• The Making and Knowing Project: Reflections, Methods, and New Directions

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Donna, Jenny, Joel, Pamela H.

• Crystalline Bodies: Fragments of a Cultural History of Glass

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Jeffrey T.

• Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part II

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Debora L.

• Dior Before Dior

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Lourdes

• The Concept of Copies: An Archaeological View of the Terracotta Ornaments from Sisupalgarh, India

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Monica L.

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