South Asian Popular Culture

South Asian Popular Culture 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 South Asian Cinema and Culture, Cinema and Media Studies and South Asian Studies and Conflicts, together about 56% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

South Asian Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary journal designed to respond to the growing interest in South Asian popular culture within the different subject disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. South Asian popular culture is defined in a broad and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass media, ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. Central to the formation of popular cultures are articulations of the economic, social and political spheres and the journal welcomes contributions that will highlight these issues. South Asian Popular Culture is of interest to cultural, media, and film studies, as well as social geography, history, diaspora studies, postmodern and postcolonial theoretical formulations, and contributions are invited from these fields. The journal critically examines from theoretical and empirical perspectives the production, distribution, and consumption of South Asian popular cultural forms within the subcontinent and across international borders. Attention to the use of popular cultures in the South Asian diasporas as well as the development of traditional cultural practices in forging hybrid forms is also an important focus. As such the journal is a forum for authors from around the world. The journal of South Asian Popular Culture seeks to serve as an innovative and informative venue to discuss and debate the emergence and vibrancy of new forms of social, economic, cultural and political strategies and representations including those in film, music, radio, television, the press, fiction, sports, visual and cyber cultures, fashion, dance and sexuality. These forms, in fact, pose a challenge to be understood within a context of culture that enshrines a transnational focus and open attitude towards difference and diversity. The journal also encourages the exploration of how South Asian cultural practice has developed within wider parameters of transnational policies of art and culture. South Asian Popular Culture also features a regular section entitled Working Notes that includes contributions from cultural practitioners within South Asian popular culture (film, radio, and television makers, musicians, artists, personnel, cultural activists, fashion designers, and sexuality campaigners). It offers original insights into their work and current debates by way of interviews, diary notes, short essays, visual images and discussions. South Asian Popular Culture welcomes new and original

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, United Kingdom 1, India 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• 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

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

OCLC, ABC-CLIO, British Humanities Index, Electronic Collections Online, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, RILM, Sociological AbstractsPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.18Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.14Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

24OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

105OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.47OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.35%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

44,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Submission to first decision

36 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

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

1474-6689

Electronic ISSN

1474-6697

Latest issue on the website

Volume 23, Issue 1 (2025)

Official links

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