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Journal of Cultural Economy
ISSN 1753-0350 · eISSN 1753-0369 · Taylor & Francis
Journal of Cultural Economy: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.75; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 292 days to acceptance (74 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 17% (journal website); 69 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Cultural Economy is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Cultural Industries and Urban Development and Management and Organizational Studies, together about 33.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Cultural Economy is concerned with the role played by various forms of material cultural practice in the organisation of the economy and the social, and the relations between them. It offers a unique interdisciplinary forum for work on these questions from across the social sciences and humanities. These include, but are not restricted to, the contributions of governmentality, pragmatism, narrative analysis, actor network theory and science and technology studies and associated debates about valuation, measurement, performativity and performance in economy, culture and society. A range of perspectives have been deployed to explore the governance of economies and societies and the making up of social and organizational identities. Historical, sociological, geographical, business and anthropological studies of markets, science, technology, organisations and finance all address the relations between culture, economy and society. Cultural studies, cultural policy and creative industry studies have also animated a renewed focus on the material cultures of production and consumption. While all of these approaches to the relations between culture, economy and society have interacted with, and influenced each other, there has been a relative shortage of debate across and between them. Journal of Cultural Economy seeks to remedy this deficiency by providing the premiere forum for debating the relations between culture, economy and the social in all their manifestations. For further information about the journal, aims, scope and topics of interest, the editorial team, submission guidelines, and more details about how to propose a special issue, visit our Journal of Cultural Economy blog. Peer Review Policy: Published articles in Journal of Cultural Economy have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two referees.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Philip RoscoePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 4, United States 3 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismEconomics, Econometrics and Finance17.8%
- Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial Sciences9.2%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.8%
- Political Economy and MarxismSocial Sciences6%
- Economic Theory and InstitutionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.4%
- Social and Cultural DynamicsSocial Sciences4.9%
- Digital Economy and Work TransformationSocial Sciences4.3%
- Political and Economic history of UK and USSocial Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cultural Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Cultural Studies | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cultural Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
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
RePEc, Current Abstracts, Ideas (RePec)Publisher 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
- 1.75LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.82Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.21LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.21Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 60OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 388OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 30.46%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 57LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 262,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,085 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 86 | 50 | 27 |
| 2025 | 69 | 38 | 105 |
| 2024 | 58 | 28 | 252 |
| 2023 | 95 | 40 | 564 |
| 2022 | 69 | 37 | 829 |
| 2021 | 65 | 22 | 916 |
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
292 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 169 days – 393 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 77 days (74 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 383 days
- Sample
- 74 articles with submission and acceptance dates (170 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 17%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 35 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 116 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 84 daysPublisher 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Journal of Cultural Economy is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. 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…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Policy:
Peer review policy: initial editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two referees. Model summary
Published articles in Journal of Cultural Economy have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two referees.
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
- ISSN
- 1753-0350
- Electronic ISSN
- 1753-0369
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 19, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Cultural Economy
What CAS zone is Journal of Cultural Economy in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Cultural Economy is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Cultural Studies / Economics / Sociology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Cultural Economy?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.75; CiteScore 4, h-index 60.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Cultural Economy?
Based on the dates recorded on 74 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 292 days (interquartile range 169–393 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 17% (2025). 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 Cultural Economy in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (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 3 of Sociology.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Cultural Economy based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (4) and United States (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Cultural Economy?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Cultural Economy is indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Cultural Economy open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Cultural Economy is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .