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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
ISSN 2000-4214 · Taylor & Francis Group · United Kingdom
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture: CAS Zone 1 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 1 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 212 days to acceptance (33 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 8% (journal website); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is published by Taylor & Francis Group and is in Zone 1 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Visual Culture and Art Theory, Cinema and Media Studies and Art, Politics, and Modernism, together about 32% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a peer reviewed open access journal publishing from within the areas of art, media, popular culture and new technologies. Global exchanges in the art and media world call for transversal theoretical revisions of national, international and regional ideas of cultural framings. It is our aim to publish academic articles departing from the growing cross-fertilisation of aesthetic, cultural and political questions in a contemporary culture. The journal calls for close studies of cases, art-works or media-productions in order to foster new thoughts, methods and theories. Contributions can come from historical or contemporary cultural and aesthetic phenomenon or genres (from popular or vernacular culture to classical genres such as film, literature, music, visual arts and, theatre), as well as from research on aesthetics and culture from different theoretical and philosophical perspectives. These areas include: Media aesthetics Fine Arts and Artistic Research Media and Screen Cultures Philosophy of Contemporary Art The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture accepts original articles and operates a double anonymized peer review policy. Publishing in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture s is free of charge thanks to a generous grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Anna OrrghenPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities11.6%
- Cinema and Media StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.3%
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities9.1%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences6.2%
- Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationPsychology5.7%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences4.6%
- Museums and Cultural HeritageArts and Humanities4.3%
- Photography and Visual CultureArts and Humanities3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Cultural Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Cultural Studies | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · 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
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
JournalSeek, MLA International BibliographyPublisher 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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.23LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.23Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.53LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.53Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.34OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 15LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 215,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 302 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 9 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 69 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 48 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 31 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
212 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 172 days – 329 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (33 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 234 days
- Sample
- 33 articles with submission and acceptance dates (42 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 14 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 165 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 14 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, CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Publishing is free of charge thanks to grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR). Model summary
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and readership of your article Make an impact and reach new readers, not ju…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review policy. Model summary
The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture accepts original articles and operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
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
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2000-4214
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 18, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
What CAS zone is Journal of Aesthetics & Culture in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is in Zone 1 of Arts, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary / Cultural Studies; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Aesthetics & Culture?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.2, h-index 23.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Aesthetics & Culture?
Based on the dates recorded on 33 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 212 days (interquartile range 172–329 days); authors report an average review time of about 14 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 8%. 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.
What JCR quartile is Journal of Aesthetics & Culture in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 1 of Arts.
Which databases index Journal of Aesthetics & Culture?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Aesthetics & Culture open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 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, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .