Cadernos de Sociomuseologia

Cadernos de Sociomuseologia is published by Edições Universitárias Lusófonas. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Museums and Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation and Libraries and Information Services, together about 71.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The journal Cadernos de Sociomuseologia is a biannual open-access scientific publication edited by the Department of Museology of Universidade Lusófona (ISSN: 1646-3714). Founded in 1993, it is currently the oldest continuously published Museology journal in the Portuguese language. Its main objectives are to publish scientific works in the specific field of Sociomuseology, to whose international consolidation the Department of Museology has continuously contributed, supporting education and training in Sociomuseology in general and, in particular, Master's and Doctoral programmes and Postdoctoral research. The Journal publishes original articles in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. It was reorganised in 2013 to follow the guidelines and best practices of international scientific publications and introduced a new numbering system: No. 1-2013, with digital publication. Since then, the Journal has been accepted into several international indexing networks (SCOPUS; ERIH PLUS; DOAJ; MIAR; Latindex; REDIB…) and assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) registered by DataCite (10.36572). It is distributed through the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) platform. The Journal is published in open access This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available at no cost to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, as well as use them for any other lawful purpose, without the need to request prior permission from the publisher or the author. The Journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The Editorial and Peer Review Board is composed of internationally renowned academics in the fields of Museology and Sociomuseology from Brazil, Canada, Spain, France, India, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. Ethics and Best Practice Framework of Cadernos de Sociomuseologia Publication EthicsThe journal Cadernos de Sociomuseologia complies with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows its Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines. Authors, editors and reviewers are expected to be aware of and comply with best practices in publication ethics. Any publication ethics issues that may arise will be handled in accordance with the COPE flowcharts. Editorial PoliciesThe Editor and Editorial Board are responsible for the articles published a

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Museology

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.01OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 5 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 5 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double 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.

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• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Edições Universitárias Lusófonas

Country or region

Portugal

Language

Spanish, Galician, English, French, Portuguese

ISSN

1646-3714

Latest issue on the website

Volume 72, Issue 28 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ