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Theatre History Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Mid-America Theatre Conference.
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ISSN 0733-2033Verify ISSN ↗2166-9953Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mid-America Theatre Conference
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 262 / 697 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 801 / 1434 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2021–2024, 2014–2019, 2002–2012), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Theatre History Studies is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 262 of 697) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 801 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Theatre History Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Theatre History Studies is published by Mid-America Theatre Conference. Its print ISSN is 0733-2033 and its online ISSN is 2166-9953.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Theatre History Studies has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #463 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Theatre History Studies published 24 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 37. 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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