Aims & Scope
Art enables people to define their worlds, express themselves, and show their beliefs and values.
Making, using and learning from artworks are fundamental to human social life, imagination and sensory engagement.
Through art, ideas take physical and tangible form and become available for new forms of seeing, understanding and writing.
World Art is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars, students and art practitioners which considers art across time, place and culture.
It aims to bring new insights and analysis to a wider, global audience.
The journal promotes experimental and comparative approaches for studying human creativity, past and present.
It provides a forum for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses.
We look for quality content in the field of World Art from contributors around the world (including works by junior to established contibutors; academics and professional; research and practiced-based).
Works in all related subjects and disciplines are considered, including art history, visual studies, anthropology, art criticism, archaeology, museum studies, and arts practice.
Special issues have treated critical themes comparatively and from interregional perspectives, such as modernisms, art ethics, primitivism, and exotic materialities.
View Aims & ScopeMetrics & Ranking
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 0.133 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q2 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 11 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 25908 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 22 |
Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
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.
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Visual art as a way to communicate climate change: a psychological perspective on climate change–related art
Citation: 59
Authors: Liselotte J., Christian A., Janet K.
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Fuelling museums and art fairs in Peru’s capital: the work of the market and multi-scale assemblages
Citation: 58
Authors: Giuliana
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Rupturing settler time: visual culture and geographies of Indigenous futurity
Citation: 27
Authors: Amber
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Visualizing climate change: an exploratory study of the effectiveness of artistic information visualizations
Citation: 22
Authors: Ulrike, Pauwke
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The globalization of art and the ‘Biennials of Resistance’: a history of the biennials from the periphery
Citation: 12
Authors: Oliver