Culture Unbound

Culture Unbound 由 Linkoping University Electronic Press 出版。按 OpenAlex 近年发文统计，该刊主要发表 Cultural Identity and Heritage、Cultural Industries and Urban Development、Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration 等主题的论文，这 3 个主题约占 20%，主导子领域为 Urban Studies。（根据 OpenAlex 主题统计与中科院分区数据生成）

Culture Unbound is an independent, academic-led, diamond open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes emergent perspectives on media, society and digital culture. We seek to publish rigorous, accessible research, creating space for innovative and experimental ways of understanding the systems, stories, images, technologies, and institutions that shape contemporary life. We hope that the journal can be a meeting place across media and internet studies, STS, and many other vibrant “studies” that are developing research, methods, and scholarly conversations on these issues. We are also thinking about the journal as a meaningful publishing environment. We do not charge authors any processing or publication fees. At a time when academic publishing models are becoming increasingly unsustainable, and scholarly work is increasingly treated as fodder for AI systems, we want to foster something more nurturing and relational: a space for genuine intellectual exchange, with fewer impersonal systems and automated layers separating authors, reviewers, and editors.We remain deeply committed to peer review as a cornerstone of academic practice. Sustaining it, however, also requires acknowledging the labour it involves. This means publishing at a deliberate and manageable pace, rather than simply maximizing outputs. We look forward to sharing more about these ambitions as the relaunch develops. For now, we only accept submissions as part of special issues, as well as pitches and proposals for special issues that generatively take the notion of "unbound" as part of their approach, writing, format, or style and fit within the new focus of the journal. For inquiries and special issue suggestions, please contact the lead editor. Note that at present we do not accept submissions of standalone articles. Who owns the journal? Culture Unbound is owned by the Department of Culture and Society at Linköping University, and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. The journal is financially supported by Linköping University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, LiU Humanities, and the Swedish Research Council. History The journal was launched in 2009 with the aim to be an a accessible home for cutting-edge cultural research. Since its inception it has had an interest in promoting innovative and experimental academic publishing methods and genres. Since 2026 the journal has a new editorial team and a more specific focus on media, society and digital culture. Peer Review Proces

摘自期刊官网 Aims & Scope

研究方向（LetPub）：Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

编委会国家分布：未见中国大陆编委；主要国家 瑞典 5、挪威 3、芬兰 2、丹麦 1（共 11 位编委标注了国家） 编委会 ↗出版商官网 · 2026-11-01

中科院期刊分区表

CiteScore 分区（Scopus，2026 年 6 月版）

Scopus 按 CiteScore 在每个学科内为期刊排名，百分位 75 及以上为 Q1，每 25 为一档；与中科院分区是不同体系。LetPub

数据库收录

ScopusDOAJLetPub

国际期刊预警名单：各版本均未列入LetPub

不同版本、大类与小类分别展示，不将不同评价口径合并为一个分区值；投稿与考核前请确认所在机构采用的版本。

影响力指标

CiteScore 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.45LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

30OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

129OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

两年平均被引

0.45OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Gold OA 文章占比

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

不同来源的统计口径与观测时间不同，页面保留各来源原值；“出版商公布”为期刊官网自述数据。

平均审稿速度（社区反馈）

20 WeeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

投稿到发表（期刊自报）

约 20 周DOAJ · 2026-11-01

评审方式

双盲同行评审DOAJ

社区反馈来自投稿者样本，置信度 0.5，不代表期刊承诺；“出版商公布”的时间节点定义以官网为准。

• APC 费用说明 ↗DOAJ
• 开放获取声明 ↗DOAJ
• 许可与版权 ↗DOAJ

费用以期刊官网为准；不同来源的观测时间可能不同，页面保留各来源原值，不做平均。

摘录来自期刊官网页面，仅保留原文片段；“模型摘要”由 Workers AI 生成并经原文校验，以官网为准。

出版商

Linkoping University Electronic Press

出版国家或地区

Sweden

出版语言

English

ISSN

2000-1525

官网最新一期

Volume 18, Issue 2（2026 年）

官方链接

• 期刊主页 ↗LetPub
• 作者指南 ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC 费用说明 ↗DOAJ
• 开放获取声明 ↗DOAJ
• 许可与版权 ↗DOAJ
• 评审流程 ↗LetPub
• 编委会 ↗LetPub