Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture is published by Academic Studies Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Language and cultural evolution and Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art, together about 27.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (ESIC) publishes scholarly and scientific articles on every aspect of imaginative culture: literature, film, theater, television, music, ideology, religion, politics, the visual arts, and digital media. Contributors to ESIC also review books from all fields of the evolutionary sciences and humanities. The journal aims to help researchers stay informed about the newest thinking in the broad range of disciplines that converge on imaginative culture. Articles are written in English, but subject matter can include works from any language and any historical period. The central qualification for contributing to the journal is to regard works of imaginative culture as arising out of human nature—the evolved and adapted character of the human mind. While sharing a common concern with locating cultural products in human nature, contributors can focus on divergent or multiple features of cultural artifacts: their depicted content, emotional qualities, or structural and stylistic features; aesthetic and intellectual traditions; the responses of readers or viewers; the motives and character of authors or other artists; the ecological and sociopolitical context within which imaginative works are produced; or the psychological or social functions the works fulfill. ESIC welcomes letters from readers, including the authors of books that have been reviewed. Such letters will be published at the editors’ discretion.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)

Editor-in-chief Enaam ShakerPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, Singapore 1, Mexico 1, Chile 1, Peru 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

25OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.28OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

Academic Studies Press

ISSN

2472-9884

Electronic ISSN

2472-9876

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex