Journal of Film and Video

Journal of Film and Video is published by University Film and Video Association and is in Zone 3 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cinema and Media Studies, Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism and Digital Games and Media, together about 53.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Official Journal of the University Film & Video Association Announcement: The UFVA has a home office. Members seeking information about accessing the UFVA web site and job postings may contact the home office by email at home@ufva.org. The Journal of Film and Video is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published four times a year. It features scholarship on film, video, and media production, history, and aesthetics as well as research on education in these fields and the role of fiction and documentary work in society. The journal is grounded in humanities research traditions that examine cultural, historical, material, and aesthetic dimensions in ways that differ from many journals in communication studies or specialty journals, such as those in cognitive studies. Yet it accepts articles that use a range of critical methods if they shed light on the production and study of film, video, and media. The journal publishes research articles in history, theory, and criticism that contextualize individual productions and the work of creative laborers. It is committed to intersectional cultural studies and ideological analyses that examine representational politics, developments in taste formation, audience engagement, and so on. It values interdisciplinary industry studies and research that illuminates the conception, production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of film, video, and media. The journal also publishes book reviews. Note: Work accepted for publication uses culturally sensitive language. The journal reserves the right to alter phrasing and reject submissions that do not follow the manuscript submission guidelines (see Submissions). The Journal of Film and Video is the official publication of the University Film & Video Association. Read our blog post about Cynthia Baron

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Editor-in-chief Cynthia BaronPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: Advanced Placement Fine Arts and Music, Abstracts of Popular Culture, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Ultimate, Art & Architecture Complete, Art & Architecture Index, Art & Architecture Source, Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Art Index (H.W. Wilson), Arts Premium Collection, Associates Program Source Plus, Associates Programs Source, Book Review Index, Brepols, Career & Technical Education Database, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Communication Abstracts, Communication Source, Current Abstracts, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Source

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

28OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

106OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

14LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

University Film and Video Association

ISSN

0742-4671

Electronic ISSN

1934-6018

Society / sponsor

University Film & Video Association

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex