The ''International Journal of Cultural Studies'' is a

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covering

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. The first

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was John Hartley ( Curtin and

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universities). The journal was established in 1998 and is published six times per year by

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. The journal is currently run by chief editor Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) along with co-editors: Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology, Australia); Anthony Fung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) and Lori Kido Lopez (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.862 placing it at position 7/45 in the Web of Science category Cultural Studies.

References

External links

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