Arts and the Market: Scopus Indexing, Scope, Metrics & Submission Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Arts and the Market?

Arts and the Market (AAM) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Emerald Publishing. Its subject centre is the relationship between artistic and cultural activity, markets, audiences, organisations and wider creative-industry practices. The journal takes a broad view of “the arts,” making it relevant to researchers in marketing, audience studies, cultural policy, management, sociology, consumer research, arts administration and related fields.

Emerald states that the journal accepts both theoretical and empirical work and is open to qualitative and quantitative approaches. It is ranked by Scopus, indexed in Clarivate’s Emerging Sources Citation Index, and also listed in services such as ABI/INFORM and EBSCO on the publisher’s page.

Researchers should consider the journal when their paper makes a clear contribution to understanding how arts and culture are produced, mediated, marketed, experienced, consumed, valued, funded or managed. Before submitting, compare your paper with recent AAM articles, verify the current indexing and metric requirements of your university or funder, and follow Emerald’s current author guidelines precisely.

Key Takeaways

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing.
• Identifiers: ISSN 2056-4945; eISSN 2056-4953; supplied Scopus Source ID 21101162636.
• Scope: arts marketing, audiences, cultural and creative industries, consumption, engagement, cultural value, entrepreneurship, communication and policy.
• Current metrics displayed by Emerald: CiteScore 2025 3.0; 2025 Impact Factor 1.2; five-year Impact Factor 1.0.
• Peer review: double-anonymous.
• Typical article length: 6,000–8,000 words, with a structured abstract and up to 12 keywords.
• Open access: hybrid; gold OA is optional after acceptance and carries a journal-specific APC, while green self-archiving is also available under Emerald policy.
• No acceptance guarantee: professional preparation can improve compliance and clarity, but only the journal makes editorial decisions.

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• Arts and the Market aims and scope, subject areas and likely research fit
• Scopus, Web of Science and other indexing information
• current metrics that are publicly displayed by Emerald
• accepted article classifications and manuscript structure
• submission, double-anonymous review and editorial decision process
• open-access routes and publication-fee considerations
• research ethics, originality, authorship and AI-use requirements
• a practical journal-fit and publication-readiness checklist

Methodology and Sources

This profile was prepared primarily from the official Emerald journal page and author guidelines, the supplied journal record and Scopus Source ID, and the official Scopus source profile link. Clarivate indexing is described only to the extent stated by Emerald. Current metrics, fees, indexing coverage, editors and policies can change, so authors should reconfirm them immediately before submission.

Where this guide explains what a journal fact may mean for a researcher, that explanation is editorial interpretation rather than an official statement from Emerald. General preparation advice is labelled as practical publication guidance and should not be confused with a mandatory journal rule.

What Is Arts and the Market in Scholarly Publishing?

Arts and the Market sits at a deliberately interdisciplinary boundary. Rather than treating art only as an aesthetic object or marketing only as a commercial function, the journal considers the systems around cultural production and consumption: audiences, organisations, platforms, brands, institutions, markets, technology, policy, participation and value creation.

This positioning can make the journal attractive to researchers whose work does not fit neatly inside a conventional marketing or arts-humanities silo. A study of theatre attendance, museum engagement, festival branding, streaming and cultural consumption, arts sponsorship, fan communities, cultural entrepreneurship or audience co-creation may be relevant if the paper develops a scholarly argument that connects clearly to the journal’s stated concerns.

Its interdisciplinarity also creates a higher bar for framing. A paper should not merely mention art as a context. It should explain why the artistic, cultural or creative-industry setting matters theoretically or practically, and why readers interested in arts markets and audiences should care about the finding.

Arts and the Market Aims and Scope

Emerald describes AAM as a venue for high-quality, original contemporary research addressing the intersection of arts, markets and audience research. The journal welcomes theoretically and empirically grounded submissions across the arts, humanities and social sciences and explicitly accepts both qualitative and quantitative research approaches.

The official scope takes a broad view of the arts and creative industries. It is concerned with artistic, cultural, social, sociological, commercial and technological practices and discourses that shape production, performance, intermediation and consumption. In practical terms, this means a paper may approach an arts-market question through consumer research, management, sociology, cultural policy, communication, technology or audience studies provided the contribution remains recognisably connected to the journal.

Topics explicitly reflected in the journal’s scope

• strategic arts marketing and marketing research in the arts
• audience engagement and consumer or audience behaviour
• co-production, co-creation and participatory practice
• cultural value and the impact of the arts
• fundraising, patronage and sponsorship
• product and brand management in arts and culture
• leadership in arts marketing and audience engagement
• corporate social responsibility, public relations and communication
• cultural entrepreneurship and creative or cultural industries
• creativity, innovation and intercultural marketing
• cultural policy related to marketing, audience development, engagement and research

Editorial interpretation: papers are likely to be stronger candidates when they do more than apply a generic business model to an arts context. The manuscript should show how the arts or cultural setting changes, challenges or enriches the theoretical question.

Understanding Its Scopus Coverage and Journal Metrics

Emerald currently lists Arts and the Market as ranked by Scopus. The supplied source record identifies Scopus Source ID 21101162636. For institutional reporting, promotion, doctoral requirements or grant compliance, researchers should use the live Scopus source record rather than a screenshot or third-party ranking page because coverage status and category metrics can change.

At the time checked, Emerald reports a 2025 CiteScore of 3.0 and a 2026 CiteScore Tracker of 3.4. A tracker is an updating current-year indicator, not the final annual metric. Emerald also reports a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.2 and a 2025 five-year Impact Factor of 1.0.

The publisher lists the journal as abstracted and indexed by ABI/INFORM, the British Library, EBSCO, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ReadCube Discover and Summon, among others. It is also listed in several journal-ranking systems, including Scopus and the Chartered Association of Business Schools list.

What about quartile, SJR and SNIP?

Quartiles are category- and year-dependent, and a journal can occupy different quartiles across subject categories. The official Emerald page does not present one universal quartile, SJR or SNIP value. Because the task requires source discipline, this guide does not substitute an unofficial aggregator for the live database. Authors who need those metrics should verify the latest value directly in Scopus/SCImago or the database accepted by their institution.

What Does Arts and the Market Publish?

During ScholarOne submission, Emerald asks authors to select a paper type and category. The journal page lists paper-type options including Research Paper, Conceptual Paper, Creative Insights and Book Review. Emerald’s wider classification framework also describes categories such as research paper, viewpoint, technical paper, conceptual paper, case study, literature review and general review.

That breadth does not mean every format is equally common or equally suitable for every topic. Authors should examine recent issues to see how the journal currently handles methods, article structures and forms of contribution. A strong empirical paper should connect data and method to a clear arts-market question. A conceptual article needs a defensible theoretical contribution rather than a descriptive overview. A review should explain its selection logic and what new synthesis it produces.

Is This Journal a Good Match for Your Research?

AAM may be worth considering when the manuscript addresses a genuine research question about arts or cultural markets, audiences, creative-industry practices, cultural value, consumption, engagement, management, communication, technology or policy. It can be especially relevant to interdisciplinary researchers who want to speak to both arts/cultural scholarship and market or audience research.

Journal-fit questions to ask before submission

• Does the central research question clearly involve arts, culture, creative industries, audiences or related markets?
• Can you explain the paper’s contribution to AAM readers in two or three sentences?
• Does the literature review engage scholarship relevant to arts marketing, audience research or cultural/creative industries rather than only a generic parent discipline?
• Is the method appropriate and reported transparently?
• Do the findings produce more than a context-specific description?
• Have you compared the manuscript with several recent AAM papers for topic, theory and method fit?
• Does your institution require a particular Scopus quartile or Web of Science category that must be independently verified?

If several answers are uncertain, revise the framing before submission or consider another journal. Emerald itself advises authors to reread the aims and scope because poor fit can lead to a decline before external peer review.

Arts and the Market Manuscript Requirements

Emerald’s current author guidelines specify a number of concrete requirements. The main article file should be supplied in Microsoft Word format. A PDF may accompany the Word file but is not accepted on its own. LaTeX can be used when accompanied by a PDF.

As a publication-readiness step, check every table, figure, appendix and supplementary file against the word-count and anonymity rules. Small compliance problems can create avoidable administrative delays even when the research itself is strong.

How Do You Submit a Paper?

Emerald states that manuscripts must be submitted by the corresponding author through the journal’s ScholarOne editorial system accessed from the official Emerald journal page. The publisher specifically warns that submissions should not be made by email, through third-party agents or through proxy submitters.

1. Read the aims, scope, ethics guidance and author instructions in full.
2. Prepare the anonymised manuscript and any separate author-biography or acknowledgement files.
3. Confirm all authors, their order, affiliations, funding and conflicts of interest.
4. Check title, structured abstract, keywords, classification and references.
5. Use the ScholarOne link from Emerald to create or access the required account.
6. Upload files, enter metadata carefully and complete required declarations.
7. Review the generated submission before final confirmation and save the manuscript number.

Emerald notes a “right first time” approach to authorship: author order and inclusion should be agreed before submission. This makes early co-author coordination important.

What Happens After You Submit a Manuscript?

The journal uses double-anonymous peer review. Before external review, the editorial office screens submissions for policy compliance, aims and scope, and manuscript quality. A paper may be declined or returned without external review if it does not fit the journal or does not meet basic submission standards.

If the manuscript proceeds, reviewers are selected to match relevant expertise. Emerald describes the review process as aiming for thoughtful, constructive engagement. Authors should expect that a decision may request revisions rather than immediate acceptance or rejection.

Emerald’s metric panel reports 78 days to first decision for the displayed reporting period, while the author-guideline narrative says the goal is to inform authors of a first decision within 60 days. These statements refer to different concepts and reporting contexts, so 78 days is the more appropriate historical performance figure while 60 days should be read as a service goal rather than a guarantee. Emerald also reports 30 days from acceptance to publication for its displayed period.

Open Access and Publication Fees

Arts and the Market is a hybrid journal. Authors can publish under the traditional route or choose gold open access after acceptance. Emerald states that the gold route makes the version of record openly available under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence and requires an article processing charge.

The journal page does not present a stable fee amount in the text captured for this guide; instead, Emerald directs authors to its APC price list or the editorial system. For that reason, this page does not invent a figure. Authors should verify the current APC immediately before making a funding or submission decision.

Emerald also provides a green open-access/self-archiving route for the author accepted manuscript. The details of repository deposit and reuse should be checked against the current policy, funder conditions and institutional requirements.

Research Ethics, Originality and AI Use

Emerald states that it follows COPE guidance and requires submitted work to be original, not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere, and compliant with copyright and permissions obligations. Conflicts of interest must be declared. Human-participant research may require ethical approval and informed-consent statements, with sufficient details for editorial evaluation without compromising anonymity.

The publisher may use Crossref Similarity Check to evaluate originality. Authors should therefore resolve duplicated text, unattributed reuse and incomplete citations before submission rather than treating similarity screening as a post-submission problem.

Emerald’s current AI policy distinguishes assistance with an author’s own existing text from generating new manuscript content. It states that large language models cannot be authors and requires responsible, transparent use. The publisher’s journal page says generative AI may be used for copy-editing an author’s original work within stated principles, while generating new submission material is not permitted. Because AI policies evolve, authors should read the current Emerald policy immediately before submission and disclose tool use where required.

How to Prepare a Stronger, Journal-Aligned Manuscript

The following are practical publication-readiness steps rather than guarantees of acceptance.

1. Make the arts-market contribution explicit. State early why the arts, cultural or creative-industry context changes the research problem.
2. Build a journal-relevant literature review. Include the relevant theoretical conversation and review recent AAM articles to understand how the journal frames contribution.
3. Match method to question. Whether qualitative, quantitative or mixed-method, explain sampling, data, analysis and limitations clearly enough for reviewers to assess credibility.
4. Strengthen the discussion. Move beyond restating results. Explain what the findings change for theory, audience research, arts management, cultural policy or practice.
5. Use the structured abstract strategically. Ensure Purpose, Design/methodology/approach, Findings and Originality each contain concrete information rather than promotional language.
6. Audit references. Check every in-text citation against the reference list and follow a recognised Harvard style consistently.
7. Protect double anonymity. Remove names, acknowledgements, self-identifying phrases, metadata and repository links that could reveal authors.
8. Run an ethics and permissions check. Confirm consent, approvals, funding, conflicts, reused figures, copyrighted material and AI disclosures.

Common Reasons a Manuscript May Be Unsuitable

• The arts or cultural context is incidental rather than central to the research contribution.
• The paper is mainly descriptive and does not develop theory, evidence or a clear analytical insight.
• The manuscript ignores relevant arts-marketing or audience-research scholarship.
• The study falls outside the journal’s interdisciplinary remit despite using superficially similar keywords.
• The article does not meet length, abstract, anonymity, reference or submission requirements.
• Ethics approval, informed consent, conflicts, permissions or funding disclosures are incomplete.
• The originality claim is weak or the manuscript substantially overlaps prior publication without disclosure.

A desk rejection for fit is not necessarily a judgement that the research lacks value; it can mean the manuscript belongs in a different scholarly conversation. Journal selection should therefore be treated as a matching problem, not only a ranking problem.

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Final Pre-Submission Checklist

• Scope fit is clear from the title, abstract, introduction and discussion.
• Current Scopus/indexing requirements have been verified directly.
• Manuscript is within the stated 6,000–8,000-word range or justified where the journal permits variation.
• Structured abstract uses the required headings and remains within the stated limit.
• Up to 12 focused keywords are provided.
• References follow a recognised Harvard style and have been cross-checked.
• All author names and identifying details are removed from the review manuscript.
• Funding, conflicts, ethics approval, informed consent and permissions are complete.
• AI use, if any, complies with Emerald’s current policy and is disclosed where required.
• Submission is made by the corresponding author through the official ScholarOne route.

Official Links and Verification Notes

Primary journal information should be reconfirmed on the official Emerald Arts and the Market page. Scopus status and source details can be checked via Scopus Source ID 21101162636. Metrics are dated because annual citation indicators, tracker values, acceptance rates and editorial timelines change over time.

Last checked: 10 August 2026. This page is an independent researcher guide from Contentxprtz and is not the journal’s official website.