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Public Culture

Country: United States•WoS SCIE Quartile: Q2•Scopus SJR: 0.29•SCImago Rank: #17,533•Identifier (ISSN):0899-2363(Print)/1527-8018(Online)•Articles / Year: 13•Estimated Publication Fee (APC): $2,912 USD
Clarivate JCR Index Advisory: Active (SSCI)
Clarivate IF (2026)Q2
1.1
↑ +0.2

Leading citation impact metric from Clarivate Journal Citation Reports

JCR Release Date: 2026-06-17
H-Index (Hirsch Index)
93

93 papers with at least that number of citations each

WoS: SCIE / JCRQ2
Self-Citation Rate9.1%
Safe Level (< 15%)Warning Level (> 20%)
Self-citation below 15% indicates strong scholarly independence.
Volume & Open AccessSubscription
13articles/year
0% Gold OA•100% Original Research

State Council for Professorship (HĐGSNN) Scoring

Quyết định số 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN ngày 11/7/2025 (Mục quốc tế)

1.50pts
Latest Max Score
Estimated (Dec 26)
Scoring Basis: WoS Q2(IF: 1.1)

HĐGSNN Score History

By article publication year
YearMax ScoreEvaluation DetailsSource
20261.50đ
WoS Q2(IF: 1.1)
🔵 Computed
20251.50đ
WoS Q2(IF: 0.9)
🔵 Computed
20241.50đ
WoS Q2(IF: 1.1)
🔵 Computed
20231.50đ
WoS Q2(IF: 1.5)
🔵 Computed
20221.50đ
WoS Q2(IF: 1.442)
🔵 Computed

Note: Domestic journal scores are officially collected from annual HĐGSNN decisions across councils. International journal scores are dynamically computed according to Decision 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN based on quartile and citation metrics in the publication year.

Aims & Scope

Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.

Topics Covered (Recognized by AI)
Political science83.9%Sociology74.7%History46.8%Law43.7%Philosophy36.6%Economics35%Geography30.3%Politics28.4%Art25.7%Computer science21.7%
Primary Research Areas

SCImago & Scopus Journal Intelligence

Global SCImago ranking, SJR prestige index, Scopus coverage, and societal policy impact

Rank #17,533Scopus Q2SCImago Profile
Scopus Coverage:1996-2025
Scopus Broad Areas:Arts and HumanitiesPsychologySocial Sciences
Scopus Citation Rank (SJR)Q2
0.29

Weighted prestige citation metric per document indexed in the Scopus database.

Tứ phân vị: Scopus Q2
Scopus H-Index (2025)
93

Measures cumulative publication volume and citation impact.

Scopus Database Indexed (2025)
Citations / Doc (2 years)
0.62

Average citations received per document published in the 2-year window.

2-Year Citation Window
Estimated Publication Fee (APC)
$2,912 USD

Estimated Article Processing Charge for Open Access publication.

Chi phí ước tính / bài báo

Scopus 3-Year Publication & Citation Window

3-Year Citations69
3-Year Documents86
Citable Documents73

Aggregated from Scopus database across the 3-year SJR evaluation window.

Societal Impact & Inclusivity (SCImago)

Policy Citations (Overton)0

Citations in government and international policy documents

Female Author Rate58.3%

Percentage of female authors published in the journal

Real-world societal policy reach and author gender diversity tracked by SCImago.

Scopus Subject Categories

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q2
CommunicationQ2
Social PsychologyQ4

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Classification

Major / minor zone classification and CAS Early Warning List history

Major Category (Broad Field):
3区 (Zone 3)Sociology
Minor Category (Specific Field):
3区ANTHROPOLOGY
CAS Early Warning List History:
Updated annually: 2020 – 2024
2020
Not warned
2021
Not warned
2022
Not warned
2023
Not warned
2024
Not warned

Publishing & Editorial Information

Detailed publisher, peer-review turnaround, and publication cycle specifications

Publisher Review Speed
Updating
Average time to first editorial decision
Online Publication Speed
Updating
Time from acceptance to online publication
Official Acceptance Rate
Updating
Manuscript acceptance rate confirmed by the publisher
Open Access Model
Subscription
OA publishing option or traditional subscription
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Language
English
Frequency
Periodic
Indexing & Databases
SSCIAHCIScopusPubMed

WoS Categories & Quartiles

Detailed JCR / JCI category rankings and quartile breakdown from Clarivate

Clarivate JCR & JCI
CategoryIndexRankQuartile
ANTHROPOLOGY
JCRSSCI
60/143Q2
CULTURAL STUDIES
JCRAHCI, SSCI
19/66Q2
ANTHROPOLOGY
JCISSCI
51/143Q2
CULTURAL STUDIES
JCIAHCI, SSCI
34/66Q3

Annual Historical Statistics & Publications

Track annual publication volume, total citations, and Impact Factor evolution

12 year
YearImpact FactorArticles / YearTotal Citations
2026—150
20250.9219
20241.1225
20231.53160
20221.44235109
2021—32237
2020—31445
2019—31461
2018—18235
2017—27506
2016—32937
2015—392,364
Academic Metric Intelligence

Journal Metrics & Citation Visualizations

Impact Factor Trend (2018–2024)

Clarivate IF trend for Public Culture

WoS Q2
011220222023202420250.90
Annual Impact Factor Metric
2025:0.9

Total Cites vs Self-Cites

Evaluation of scholarly independence and citation reach

Total citations steady growth
Self-citation: 9.1%

Citations per Document

Citation metric windows across 2, 3, and 4 years

Cites / Doc (4 years)Cites / Doc (3 years)Cites / Doc (2 years)

Similar Journals in Discipline

Journals in the same research field with comparable impact metrics

Record UUID: f45c0247-b63f-403f-a9e0-f8c3af3ab269
Database Updated: 2026-10-01