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Best Cultural Studies journals

1,431 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Cultural Studies. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Virtual Economics 16.3 99th Q1 – – Yes
2 Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 14.4 99th Q1 ESCI C No
3 Journal of Peasant Studies 11.7 99th Q1 SSCI – No
4 Journal of Global Fashion Marketing 11.5 99th Q1 ESCI B No
5 Tourism Recreation Research 11.3 99th Q1 ESCI A No
6 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 9.9 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
7 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 9.1 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Mobile Media and Communication 8.8 99th Q1 SSCI – No
9 Social Media and Society 8.7 99th Q1 SSCI – Yes
10 Group Processes and Intergroup Relations 8.2 99th Q1 SSCI B No
11 Quantitative Science Studies 8 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
12 Race Ethnicity and Education 7.8 99th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Forum Scientiae Oeconomia 7.5 99th Q1 – – Yes
14 Social Movement Studies 7.5 99th Q1 SSCI – No
15 Folia Geographica 7.3 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 Games and Culture 7.3 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
17 South Asian Journal of Business Studies 6.8 98th Q1 ESCI B No
18 Fashion and Textiles 6.8 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
19 Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 6.4 98th Q1 SSCI B No
20 Annual Review of Anthropology 6.4 98th Q1 SSCI – No
21 Tourism and Management Studies 6.3 98th Q1 ESCI C Yes
22 International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 6.3 98th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Ethnicity and Health 6.2 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
24 Journal of Contemporary Asia 6.2 98th Q1 SSCI – No
25 Kharisma 6.2 98th Q1 – – No
26 Science as Culture 6.1 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
27 Social and Cultural Geography 6.1 98th Q1 SSCI – No
28 Global Media and China 5.9 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
29 Information Society 5.8 98th Q1 SSCI A No
30 Cross Cultural and Strategic Management 5.7 97th Q1 SSCI B No
31 Journal of Research on Adolescence 5.7 97th Q1 SSCI – No
32 Pedagogy, Culture and Society 5.7 97th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Annals of Leisure Research 5.6 97th Q1 ESCI B No
34 Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 5.6 97th Q1 SSCI A No
35 Media International Australia 5.6 97th Q1 SSCI – No
36 Ethnic and Racial Studies 5.5 97th Q1 SSCI – No
37 Innovation and Development 5.5 97th Q1 ESCI – No
38 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 5.3 97th Q1 ESCI B No
39 Journal of China Tourism Research 5.3 97th Q1 ESCI B No
40 American Behavioral Scientist 5.2 97th Q1 SSCI B No
41 Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 5.1 97th Q1 SSCI B No
42 Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 5.1 97th Q1 AHCI – No
43 Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 5.1 97th Q1 ESCI – No
44 Psychology of Popular Media 5 96th Q1 SSCI – No
45 Social Semiotics 5 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
46 Millennial Asia 4.8 96th Q1 ESCI C No
47 International Journal of Heritage Studies 4.7 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
48 Cultural Trends 4.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
49 World Leisure Journal 4.6 96th Q1 ESCI B No
50 Crime Science 4.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
51 Cultural Sociology 4.6 96th Q1 SSCI – No
52 Discourse, Context and Media 4.6 96th Q1 SSCI – No
53 Forest and Society 4.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
54 Identities 4.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
55 Poetics 4.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
56 Television and New Media 4.6 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
57 Crime, Media, Culture 4.5 96th Q1 SSCI – No
58 International Journal of Cultural Policy 4.5 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A No
59 Fashion Practice 4.5 95th Q1 AHCI – No
60 Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 4.5 95th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – Yes
61 Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4.4 95th Q1 AHCI – No
62 Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 4.4 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
63 European Journal of Cultural Studies 4.3 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
64 Journal of International Migration and Integration 4.2 95th Q1 ESCI C No
65 Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education 4.2 95th Q1 – – No
66 Journal of Children and Media 4.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
67 Nusantara: Journal of Law Studies 4.2 95th Q1 – – No
68 Whiteness and Education 4.2 95th Q1 – – No
69 Sport in Society 4.1 95th Q1 SSCI B No
70 Evolutionary Human Sciences 4.1 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
71 Journal of Multicultural Discourses 4.1 95th Q1 ESCI – No
72 Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction 4.1 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
73 Cultural Studies of Science Education 4 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
74 Ethnicities 4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
75 Gender, Place and Culture 4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
76 Journal of Cultural Economy 4 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
77 Qualitative Report 4 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
78 International Journal of Cultural Studies 3.9 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
79 Journal of Communication Inquiry 3.9 94th Q1 ESCI – No
80 Journal of Contemporary European Studies 3.9 94th Q1 SSCI – No
81 Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies 3.9 94th Q1 – – No
82 Space and Culture 3.9 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
83 Ethnopolitics 3.8 94th Q1 ESCI – No
84 Journal of Men's Studies 3.8 94th Q1 – – No
85 Mind, Culture, and Activity 3.8 94th Q1 SSCI – No
86 Race and Class 3.8 94th Q1 SSCI – No
87 China Economic Journal 3.8 93th Q1 ESCI B No
88 Communication and Society 3.8 93th Q1 ESCI – Yes
89 Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3.8 93th Q1 – – No
90 International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 3.7 93th Q1 ESCI B No
91 Emotions and Society 3.7 93th Q1 ESCI – No
92 Journal for Multicultural Education 3.7 93th Q1 ESCI – No
93 Past and Present 3.7 93th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
94 REICE. Revista Iberoamericana Sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educacion 3.7 93th Q1 ESCI – Yes
95 Creative Industries Journal 3.6 93th Q1 ESCI – No
96 Culture and Evolution 3.6 93th Q1 – – No
97 Food, Culture and Society 3.6 93th Q1 SSCI – No
98 Society Register 3.6 93th Q1 – – Yes
99 Ethnography 3.5 93th Q1 SSCI – No
100 Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites 3.5 93th Q1 – – Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Cultural Studies Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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