Representations

Representations is published by University of California Press 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 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Legal Cases and Commentary, together about 29.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Editors’ Statement Representations seeks to transform and enrich the understanding of cultures. Our central interests lie in the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice. Cultures are built out of representations. Their making is, fundamentally, a communal activity. Even in the special realm we call art, representation is a communal activity, inseparable from collective motives, attitudes, and judgments. The understanding of representation is the shared concern of a wide variety of disciplines. Significant research by historians, art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists focuses on the way societies, institutions, and structures of power represent themselves in language, art, and ceremonial–and are themselves shaped by these representations. Representations provides a forum for work that is theoretically sophisticated but with a high degree of social, historical, and textual specificity. The journal brings together work that ignores traditional disciplinary boundaries, revealing the connections among widely diverse fields of research. In doing so, it has created a new community of scholarship among all who explore the way artifacts, institutions, and modes of thought both reflect and give a heightened account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances in which they arise. New Subscriptions Individuals may order Representations from UC Press. Institutions may order by contacting their subscription agent, by visiting our shop cart page, or by contacting our fulfillment agent, MPS North America LLC, 5750 Major Blvd., Suite 100, Orlando, FL 32819, Tel: +1-866 978 5898 Fax: +1-484-302-4348 Email: ucpress@mpslimited.com. Contact Information Diana Wise, Associate Editor Representations 322 Wheeler Hall, MC 1030 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 reps@berkeley.edu Tweet

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Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United Kingdom 6, France 2, Italy 2, Mainland China 1 (11 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

81OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

716OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

2.44%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

30LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of California Press

ISSN

0734-6018

Electronic ISSN

1533-855X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex