Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas

Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas is published by Brill and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Asian American and Pacific Histories, Japanese History and Culture and Asian Culture and Media Studies, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cultural Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas is a peer-reviewed journal that features multidisciplinary scholarship on intersections between visual culture studies and the study of Asian diasporas across the Americas. Perspectives on and from North, Central and South America, as well as the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean are presented to encourage the hemispheric transnational study of multiple Americas with diverse indigenous and diasporic populations. The broad conceptualization of the Americas as a complex system of continual movement, migratory flows and cultural exchange, and Asian diaspora as an analytical tool, enables the critical examination of the historically under-represented intersections between and within, Asian Canadian Studies, Asian American Studies, Asian Latin American Studies, Asian Caribbean Studies, and Pacific Island Studies. The journal explores visual culture in all its multifaceted forms, including, but not limited to, visual arts, craft, cinema, film, performing arts, public art, architecture, design, fashion, media, sound, food, networked practices, and popular culture. It recognizes the ways in which diverse systems of visualities, inclusive of sensorial, embodied experience, have shaped and embedded meanings within culturally specific, socio-political and ideological contexts. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas is dedicated to the critical examination of visual cultural production by and about Asian diasporic communities in the Americas and largely conceived within a globally connected framework. The journal provides an intellectual forum for researchers and educators to showcase, engage and be in dialogue with this growing multidisciplinary area of investigation within the humanities and is published twice annually with one double issue. Along with academic articles, each issue features reviews of a wide range of visual cultural production, including books, films, and exhibitions, as well as full colour artist pages. The journal welcomes transnational and transhistorical as well as site-based scholarly critique and investigation on visual cultures that engage with historical, material, cultural and political contextualizations within current discussions on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, dis/ability and class as well as aesthetics, ethics, epistemologies, and technologies of visuality. Transcultural areas of investigation in the humanities, including Asian-Indigenous collaborations, historical formulations of Afro-Asian connections, and studies on transnational subjects of mixed-race heritage, are welcome. In this way, the journal recognizes the critical project of challenging not only the assumed pan-ethnicity of cultural groupings but also the varying degrees of racialized experiences that have been freighted by cultural stereotypes or based on regional identifications, geographical proximity and fixed temporalities. The editors invite manuscript submissions in the form of articles (approximately 5,000-6,000 words), reviews (800-1,000 words) as well as proposed artist pages (up to 6 pages), which enrich, advance and expand the study of visual cultures in diverse Asian diasporic communities across the Americas, conceived of in the broadest way.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief Alice MingPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

0.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.07LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

7OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.26OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

4LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Brill

ISSN

2352-3077

Electronic ISSN

2352-3085

Official links

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• Submission system ↗Publisher website
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