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PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 1520-281XVerify ISSN ↗1537-9477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 554 / 697 | 20th | Q4 |
| Music | 171 / 196 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2024, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art is Q4 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 554 of 697) and Q4 in Music (rank 171 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 1520-281X and its online ISSN is 1537-9477.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #368 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art published 51 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 56. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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