Journal profile
img journal
ISSN 2724-2463 · University of Bologna · Italy
img journal: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
img journal is published by University of Bologna. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Visual Culture and Art Theory, Architecture, Modernity, and Design and Architecture and Art History Studies, together about 35.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
IMG JOURNAL is an interdisciplinary scientific journal on image, imagery and imagination, and promotes the interchange between disciplines on monographic topics, mainly — but not only — related to the domain of visual science, graphic science, psychological and pedagogical sciences. The journal encourages the publication of widely developed in-depth and experimental studies, but also theoretical studies, comprehensive reviews on specific topics and position papers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Alessandro LuiginiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities16.9%
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering10.8%
- Architecture and Art History StudiesArts and Humanities8.2%
- Art, Technology, and CultureArts and Humanities7.4%
- Architecture and Computational DesignEngineering4.5%
- Art, Aesthetics, and PerceptionArts and Humanities4.2%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities4%
- 3D Surveying and Cultural HeritageEarth and Planetary Sciences3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, ISSN 2724-2463Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 209 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38 | 38 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 22 |
| 2022 | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| 2021 | 61 | 61 | 8 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted2
- editorialEditorial Francesco Bergamo, Marina Marques 6-9 PDFLength not stated
- keynoteKeynote Atmospheres in Architecture and Moving images: Isaac Julien’s Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement Giuliana Bruno 38-51 PDFLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Unless otherwise stated, the copyrights of all the texts on this journal belong to the respective authors without restrictions. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (full legal code). See also our Open Access Policy. Metadata All the metadata of the published material is released in the public domain and may be used by anyone free of charge. This …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access journal Model summary
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must b…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
IMG JOURNAL uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal or indicate their identity. The editors — guest editors and editors-in-chief — will decide whether the submission i…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Bologna
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2724-2463
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about img journal
How long does peer review take at img journal?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index img journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, img journal is indexed in DOAJ.
Is img journal open access, and what is the APC?
img journal is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .