Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
ARS
ISSN 1678-5320 · eISSN 2178-0447 · Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil
ARS: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 32 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ARS is published by Universidade de São Paulo. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Art, Politics, and Modernism, Urban and sociocultural dynamics and Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies, together about 31.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Breve Histórico Sobre a Revista A revista Ars é uma publicação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo que reúne trabalhos relevantes no debate da arte produzidos no meio universitário e fora dele. Propõe um foco ampliado na abordagem conforme, ademais, as exigências da própria produção artística contemporânea. Com isso, objetiva contribuir no debate cultural para além dos muros da universidade e interrogar as próprias perspectivas da arte no contexto contemporâneo. Ao mesmo tempo, valoriza a área teórica e a contribuição de disciplinas mais antigas, como a filosofia, a estética e a história da arte, ainda que frequentemente se trate de confrontar ou apontar os limites dessa tradição em face dos desafios da situação contemporânea. Ars tem interesse em divulgar, ao lado dos trabalhos dos artistas, críticos, historiadores de arte e alunos de pós-graduação do Departamento de Artes Visuais colaborações de pesquisadores, artistas, intelectuais e outros profissionais do meio artístico, favoráveis à experimentação e à pesquisa teórica especializada. Histórico do periódico O lançamento de ARS foi precedido por um intenso processo de discussão e por atividades ligadas à organização de seu projeto, que se desenvolveram a partir de meados de 2002. A ideia foi motivada pela constatação, à época, da alarmante lacuna de revistas especializadas em artes e ciências humanas no país, capazes de estimular as discussões intelectuais em condições especialmente favoráveis porquanto isentas dos interesses de uma publicação comercial. A Ars surge da vontade de intervenção no debate acerca da arte contemporânea tendo em vista que as questões que envolvem uma escola de arte não devem permanecer restritas ao ambiente acadêmico, mas mobilizar o debate cultural para além dos muros da universidade e interrogar as próprias perspectivas da arte no contexto contemporâneo. Sendo assim, a revista pretende, desde suas primeiras edições, contribuir para formar uma cultura crítica no meio artístico do país, incentivando o trabalho de novas gerações de pesquisadores e preparando-as para a intervenção na vida pública. O primeiro número da Ars foi trazido a público em março de 2003. Até 2015 foi editada semestralmente pelos professores Gilbertto Prado, Sônia Salzstein e Marco Giannotti, com projeto gráfico do professor Mario Ramiro. Entre 2017 e 2023, a revista passou a ser uma publicação quadrimestral do Programa de Pós-Graduaç
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Editor-in-chief Liliane BenettiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 5, France 2, Argentina 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities11.2%
- Urban and sociocultural dynamicsSocial Sciences10.4%
- Cultural, Media, and Literary StudiesArts and Humanities10%
- History, Culture, and SocietyHealth Professions8.8%
- Literature, Culture, and CriticismArts and Humanities8.3%
- Arts and Performance StudiesArts and Humanities7%
- Brazilian cultural history and politicsSocial Sciences4.6%
- Urban Development and Societal IssuesSocial Sciences4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SciELOPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.11OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 657 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025 | 32 | 32 | 4 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 2 |
| 2023 | 37 | 37 | 8 |
| 2022 | 29 | 29 | 12 |
| 2021 | 63 | 63 | 33 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Conflicts of interest Policy on Conflict of Interest
Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any financial or other conflicts of interest that may have influenced…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
The Ars Journal does not charge any fees for the submission, evaluation, and/or publication of articles.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
The authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license . After publication, the authors retain copyright and republication rights to the text.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
This journal provides open access to its content, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the Ars journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties using an open license ( Creative Commons Attribution , CC-BY ), allowing immediate free access to the work a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Ars adopts a blind peer review system (ad hoc partnership) with the collaboration of renowned professors/researchers of Brazilian and foreign universities, which guarantees, at the same time, accuracy and transparency in the evaluation criteria. The papers submitted are firstly evaluated by the editors, who verify their accordance to the provided submission guidelines, to the focus and scope of th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
A revista Ars aceita a submissão de preprints do servidor SciELOPreprints. A aceitação de Preprints de outros servidores será analisada pelos editores do periódico.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universidade de São Paulo
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- Portuguese
- ISSN
- 1678-5320
- Electronic ISSN
- 2178-0447
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ARS
How long does peer review take at ARS?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of ARS based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (5), France (2) and Argentina (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index ARS?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ARS is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is ARS open access, and what is the APC?
ARS is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .