Early Popular Visual Culture

Early Popular Visual Culture is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Cinema and Media Studies, Photography and Visual Culture and Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism, together about 45.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930. EPVC examines the use and exploitation of popular cultural forms such as (but not limited to) cinema, photography, the magic lantern, panoramas, music hall, illustrated books and periodicals, cartoon strips, circus, stage performances, posters and caricatures in the fields of entertainment, education, science, advertising and the domestic environment, and is primarily concerned with the evolving social, technological and economic contexts which such popular cultural products inhabited and influenced. The journal publishes a range of original historical, theoretical and methodological articles on early popular visual culture, as well as offering selected facsimile materials of obscure and rare sources, reviews and research reports. There are also regular special thematic issues. It is published in English only. Peer Review Policy: Unsolicited articles are subject to initial editor screening and anonymized reviewing by at least two anonymous referees. Articles in special issues and special sections are subject to initial editor screening via proposals and are then subject to review by the guest editor and one anonymous referee. Editorial Standards: While Early Popular Visual Culture often publishes articles that discuss cultural works featuring dehumanising language uses and/or images (meaning that readers will be exposed to partial or full reproductions of historical works that would constitute hate speech if published for the first time today), the editorial standards of Early Popular Visual Culture include 1) that authors’ own original writing should not include dehumanising representations of any kind, in line with the academic principle of writing in value-neutral prose, and 2) that when authors discuss cultural works that include instances of dehumanising language use and/or images, authors’ own discussion of those instances should clearly identify the historical context that produced them, so as to minimise the risk of normalising those language uses and/or images in contemporary usage. Editors will work with authors who intend to include sensitive materials to ensure that the journal's editorial standards are met. Also read our editorial: Sarah Dellmann, Joe Kember and Andrew Shail, ‘Towards a non-discriminatory, inclusive use of language and images in

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

OCLC, British Humanities Index, Current Abstracts, Humanities International Index, International Index to Film PeriodicalsPublisher website

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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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.11Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.67Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

83OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.13OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.52%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

41,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

42%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

86 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

102 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

28 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Single-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1746-0654

Electronic ISSN

1746-0662

Latest issue on the website

Volume 23, Issue 4 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website