Journal profile · ART
World Art
ISSN 2150-0894 · eISSN 2150-0908
World Art: impact factor 0.3 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 132 days to acceptance (36 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 34% (journal website); 21 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, World Art's largest topics are Art, Politics, and Modernism, Cultural Industries and Urban Development and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, together about 25.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Art enables people to define their worlds, express themselves, and show their beliefs and values. Making, using and learning from artworks are fundamental to human social life, imagination and sensory engagement. Through art, ideas take physical and tangible form and become available for new forms of seeing, understanding and writing. World Art is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars, students and art practitioners which considers art across time, place and culture. It aims to bring new insights and analysis to a wider, global audience. The journal promotes experimental and comparative approaches for studying human creativity, past and present. It provides a forum for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses. We look for quality content in the field of World Art from contributors around the world (including works by junior to established contibutors; academics and professional; research and practiced-based). Works in all related subjects and disciplines are considered, including art history, visual studies, anthropology, art criticism, archaeology, museum studies, and arts practice. Special issues have treated critical themes comparatively and from interregional perspectives, such as modernisms, art ethics, primitivism, and exotic materialities. World Art aims to: Explore what art is for people around the globe Encourage contributors to investigate the distribution of art, its dissemination and display; to review notions of centres and peripheries, and to challenge categories like the mainstream and the marginalized Welcome contributions that promote inter-cultural, inter-national, inter-practice and inter-disciplinary concerns. It encourages critical reflection at the intersections of theory, method and practice Enable new histories to emerge, aiming to complement traditional scholarly narratives and presentations about art Submissions can take the form of: Research articles based on individual or collaborative research Visual essays prioritising images with a critical commentary Dialogues between scholars and practitioners Interventions exploring ideas across cultures, disciplines and practices Position papers giving voice to topical themes and debates Audio and video materials and additional colour images may be included for the online version. The journal is an English language publication, but submissions in other languages may be considered. All contributions are s
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ART
Editor-in-chief George LauPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, United States 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities10.7%
- Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial Sciences8.3%
- Archaeology and Rock Art StudiesSocial Sciences6.6%
- Japanese History and CultureSocial Sciences5.9%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences5.1%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities5.1%
- Museums and Cultural HeritageArts and Humanities4.6%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
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
ESCILetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ScopusPublisher website
Other: Anthropological Index Online
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 (publisher) 2025
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.13Publisher website ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.37Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.85OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 14%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 36,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 319 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5 | 30 |
| 2024 | 16 | 3 | 15 |
| 2023 | 22 | 8 | 21 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 2021 | 11 | 4 | 37 |
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
132 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 102 days – 176 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 73 days (36 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 234 days
- Sample
- 36 articles with submission and acceptance dates (40 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)
- 34%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 26 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 79 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single 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.
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)
Article types accepted5
- dialoguesDialogues between scholars and practitionersLength not stated
- interventionsInterventions exploring ideas across cultures, disciplines and practicesLength not stated
- position papersPosition papers giving voice to topical themes and debatesLength not stated
- research articlesResearch articles based on individual or collaborative researchLength not stated
- visual essaysVisual essays prioritising images with a critical commentaryLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
English language publication; submissions in other languages may be considered. Model summary
World Art 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 and readership of…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Model summary
All contributions are single-anonymized peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert 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
- ISSN
- 2150-0894
- Electronic ISSN
- 2150-0908
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 16, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about World Art
What is the impact factor of World Art?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 15.
How long does peer review take at World Art?
Based on the dates recorded on 36 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 132 days (interquartile range 102–176 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 34%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of World Art based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (2) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index World Art?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, World Art is indexed in ESCI. The journal's website also lists Scopus; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is World Art open access, and what is the APC?
World Art 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: .