IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER

IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Diaspora, migration, transnational identity and Migration and Labor Dynamics, together about 39.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Questions of culture and cultural identity have emerged at the core of issues of social and political division, contestation and transformation across the globe and between and within nation-states in recent years. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power explores the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world. It locates culture, representations and identities as key sites for processes of domination, struggle and resistance, recognising their intersection with other forms of social division and identification. Identities provides an interdisciplinary space for new theoretically informed empirical research and critical analysis which opens up questions of race, ethnicity and culture. It draws on and brings together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, social policy, cultural geography, political science and social psychology. Identities seeks to engage established and emerging scholars in the field in contributing high quality articles, special issues, commentaries and debates which address key questions of culture and identity with which the journal is engaged. Peer Review All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Research articles that are part of a Special Issue or Themed Section undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by the Editors and the Guest Editors, and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. All final decisions related to the acceptance of articles submitted to a Special Issue or Themed Section are subject to the discretion of the Editors. Book Reviews and Reply articles that are part of a Book Symposium are invited pieces and undergo internal review by the Editors. Oversight of and all decisions related to the publication of Book Symposium pieces is retained by the Editors in Chief. The Editors reserve the right to desk reject submissions of poor quality, or of limited relevance to our readers, prior to peer review.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5, United States 1, Japan 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 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

SSCIAHCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERICCurrent ContentsPublisher 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

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

4.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.58LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.58Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.29Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

70OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

593OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

29.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

196,000Publisher 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)

9%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

6 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

125 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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

1070-289X

Electronic ISSN

1547-3384

Latest issue on the website

Volume 33, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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