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Journals for “Theatre and Performance Studies”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theater Duke University Press · United States | 100% | 39.1 | #29,345 | 159 | 45% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 86% | 40.3 | #27,975 | 244 | 58% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Canadian Theatre Review University of Toronto Press · Canada | 87% | 38.0 | #30,549 | 382 | 1% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Contemporary Theatre Review Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 84% | 43.5 | #24,814 | 195 | 36% | Not recorded |
| 5 | TDR/The Drama Review Cambridge University Press · United States | 74% | 55.2 | #15,961 | 356 | 48% | Not recorded |
| 6 | New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 80% | 40.9 | #27,345 | 203 | 40% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Theatre Research in Canada University of Toronto Press · Canada | 85% | 31.8 | #38,115 | 126 | 10% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawaii Press · United States | 74% | 37.7 | #30,955 | 175 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Theatre Journal Johns Hopkins University Press · United States | 66% | 47.5 | #21,440 | 587 | 3% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Modern Drama University of Toronto Press · Canada | 70% | 39.2 | #29,176 | 266 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 11 | South African Theatre Journal Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 70% | 36.5 | #32,303 | 76 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Theatre Survey Cambridge University Press · United States | 63% | 38.7 | #29,708 | 403 | 17% | Not recorded |
| 13 | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance Routledge · United Kingdom | 48% | 57.3 | #14,624 | 268 | 41% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Latin American theatre review Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas · United States | 63% | 27.6 | #43,459 | 129 | 18% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Stanislavski Studies Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 62% | 29.1 | #41,474 | 95 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Theatre topics Johns Hopkins University Press · United States | 56% | 38.1 | #30,434 | 227 | 1% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Studies in Theatre and Performance Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 47% | 48.3 | #20,765 | 157 | 57% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Text and Performance Quarterly Taylor & Francis · United States | 44% | 52.0 | #18,082 | 174 | 14% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Journal of Contemporary Drama in English De Gruyter · Germany | 49% | 39.1 | #29,312 | 183 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Comparative drama Western Michigan University · United States | 50% | 37.0 | #31,688 | 164 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Theatrical Colloquia De Gruyter · Romania | 56% | 22.6 | #49,766 | 184 | 92% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Journal of dramatic theory and criticism United States | 48% | 34.5 | #34,628 | 156 | 11% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Journal of Theatre Dance and Performance Training Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 39% | 45.7 | #22,924 | 355 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi / Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy Istanbul University · Türkiye · DOAJ | 51% | 20.0 | #52,696 | 82 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Nordic Theatre Studies Aarhus University Library · Sweden | 44% | 30.8 | #39,416 | 83 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Documenta Ghent University · Belgium | 44% | 26.7 | #44,631 | 105 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Applied Theatre Research Intellect · United Kingdom | 48% | 19.6 | #53,150 | 61 | 13% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Performing Ethos International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance Intellect · United Kingdom | 48% | 17.1 | #55,620 | 51 | 4% | Not recorded |
| 29 | PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art The MIT Press · United States | 38% | 35.7 | #33,246 | 199 | 13% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Performance Research Routledge · United Kingdom | 32% | 44.0 | #24,374 | 706 | 33% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
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