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Journal of Cultural Economy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ15756811 ↗
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The Journal of Cultural Economy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering cultural and economic sociology. It was established in 2008 and is published by Routledge. The editors-in-chief as of February 2026 are Liz McFall (University of Edinburgh), Philip Roscoe (University of St Andrews), and Toby Bennett (University of Westminster). The founding editor was Tony Bennett (then Open University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 0.944.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2026, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Cultural and Economy can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Cultural Economy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.