Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Spanish Culture and Identity, Spanish Literature and Culture Studies and Hispanic-African Historical Relations, together about 38.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal in the humanities that interrogates cultural production and cultural practices in or related to the nations comprised by the Spanish state. It promotes innovative theoretical and critical work at a high intellectual level that fills existing gaps in scholarship or rethinks the cultural meanings of previously studied material. Work is encouraged that addresses Spain's cultural diversity or its relationship to broader geo-political scenarios (Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean, Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia etc.). Submissions are invited on any historical period and in or across any cultural discipline, including, but not limited to: literary studies, cultural history, visual culture, cinema, media, performing arts, sound studies, intellectual history, philosophy, history of science, psychoanalysis, history of the emotions, material culture, anthropology, and religion. All work should engage with appropriate cultural theory and should offer detailed critical analysis of the material studied, exploring its relationship to wider cultural issues or cultural contexts. We do not publish surveys or essays that are purely descriptive or whose methodology is primarily quantitative. We encourage authors to consult past issues of the journal for models of scholarship previously accepted for publication (abstracts of all articles are available online to non-subscribers). In addition to research articles, we welcome position papers, interviews, and review articles. Proposals for these, as well as for monographic issues, should be sent to the editorial office: jscs@nyu.edu; all such proposals should clarify the original contribution to scholarship. Four issues are published each year, with contributions in English or Spanish. Peer Review Statement All submitted research articles undergo an initial editor screening, followed by double-anonymized peer review with at least two independent referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 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

EBSCO, OCLC, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, EBSCO bibliographical series Humanities International Index, OCLC Sociological AbstractsPublisher website

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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.

Impact

Impact factor

0.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.17Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.27Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

102OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

20%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

19LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

37,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

27%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

32 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

128 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1463-6204

Electronic ISSN

1469-9818

Latest issue on the website

Volume 27, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website