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Theatre Research International is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0307-8833Verify ISSN ↗1474-0672Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 92 / 1186 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 105 / 697 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Theatre Research International is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 92 of 1186) and Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 105 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Theatre Research International 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 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Theatre Research International is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0307-8833 and its online ISSN is 1474-0672.
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 Research International has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Theatre Research International published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 76. 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.
In its latest 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (25.9%), United States (22.7%) and India (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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