International Studies Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

International Studies Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal is published by Sciendo. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are International Relations and Foreign Policy, European Politics and Security and Polish Historical and Cultural Studies, together about 30.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aims and Scope of Journal In a joint decision between Lodz University Press and The Department of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz, we have decided to close "International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal". The journal was published in the years 2007–2022. International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal (IS) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to political and cultural studies in the international context. We hope that all scholars specializing in these fields will find our journal a valuable resource, and that it will also have a broader appeal to academics working in such areas as social studies as well as international relations. It is one of the first journals of this kind, not only in Poland but in Central and Eastern Europe, but its scope is not limited to the region; on the contrary, we aim at bringing to our readers the most interesting perspectives and voices of opinion about current global issues and the most topical and innovative research in the area of international, cultural and political studies. That is why the IS publishes essays that vary in focus and methodology. In pursuit of the goal of continued excellence, we have inevitably been dependent on the contributions of our colleagues working in other disciplines, such as philosophy, communication and media, literature and anthropology. The IS has generated a worldwide interest, and we have received good quality submissions from all over the world. We collect and publish articles to special thematic issues, but we also accept proposals which are not connected with our current call for papers. While editing most of such non-thematic issues, the operation of singling out articles form the pool of submissions has unfailingly revealed some surprising connections, which in another age might have elicited a Baudelairean awe of correspondence. The journal’s content consists of two permanent parts: "Articles" and "Book Reviews," but we also welcome the readers’ comments and observations in the form of "Letters to the Editor" which present responses to the articles published in the IS. We hope that more contributions will also come, less formally, in the form of ideas for special issues or new features, along with information about new work, exciting new methodologies, and conference announcements, defined as broadly as possible. We are eager for such suggestions and wholeheartedly invite all our prospective c

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Editor-in-chief Robert CzuldaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 4, United States 2, Sweden 1, Russia 1, Ukraine 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

h-index

12OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

14OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.64OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 28 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 15 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Sciendo

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2300-8695

Print ISSN

1641-4233

Latest issue on the website

Volume 30, Issue 2 (2022)

Official links

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