Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts.

It welcomes papers from various disciplines – notably sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics.

Banks, Frédéric Godart, Tally Katz-Gerro, and Vaughn Schmutz.

It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1971.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5.