''Cultural Studies'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering research on the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical, and historical contexts. The current
editor-in-chief
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is
Ted Striphas (
University of Colorado Boulder
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).
Lawrence Grossberg
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(
University of North Carolina
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), who has served as editor-in-chief from 1990 until 2018 is currently involved as Editor Emeritus. Former co-editors include
Janice Radway (1991–1995) and Della Pollock (1995–2013).
''Cultural Studies'' was preceded by the ''Australian Journal of Cultural Studies'', published at the
Western Australian Institute of Technology. The journal was established under its current name in 1987. Originally published by
Methuen Publishing
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It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924) and began publishing in London in 1892. Initially, Methuen mainly published non-fiction acade ...
, it transferred to
Routledge
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when the Methuen imprint was sold by then-owner
International Thomson Organization
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to
Octopus Publishing.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2012
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 0.526.
References
External links
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''Australian Journal of Cultural Studies''at
Murdoch University
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