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ARTMargins
ISSN 2162-2574 · eISSN 2162-2582 · MIT Press
ARTMargins: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); subscription journal; 31 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ARTMargins is published by MIT Press and is in Zone 3 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Art, Politics, and Modernism, Cultural Industries and Urban Development and Eastern European Communism and Reforms, together about 37.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ARTMargins publishes material related to the histories of 20th-century and contemporary art, art theory, art institutions, and curatorship. It places special emphasis on marginal histories and innovative critical and methodological perspectives. The editors are particularly interested in submissions that consider art within sociocultural, political, and theoretical contexts. They also welcome attention to the work of artists and art thinkers who work outside of English-speaking and official circuits. Submissions may consider, among other things, questions pertaining to art and politics, periodization and historicization—including the contemporary—sovereignty, post colonialism, decolonization, the notion of the global, and/or the transition from and towards socialism.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ART
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities24.6%
- Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial Sciences7.5%
- Eastern European Communism and ReformsSocial Sciences5.1%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities4.5%
- Middle East Politics and SocietySocial Sciences4.3%
- Public Spaces through ArtSocial Sciences4.3%
- Photographic and Visual ArtsArts and Humanities3.9%
- Jewish and Middle Eastern StudiesSocial Sciences3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Arts Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.15OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 1.72%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 406 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | 31 | 12 | 4 |
| 2024 | 29 | 10 | 8 |
| 2023 | 34 | 18 | 9 |
| 2022 | 27 | 10 | 8 |
| 2021 | 26 | 8 | 15 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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 websiteAI use
- AI use
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Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISSN
- 2162-2574
- Electronic ISSN
- 2162-2582
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ARTMargins
What CAS zone is ARTMargins in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ARTMargins is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Art. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ARTMargins?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.2, h-index 8.
Which databases index ARTMargins?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ARTMargins is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is ARTMargins open access, and what is the APC?
ARTMargins is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .