Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Dancecult
ISSN 1947-5403 · Public Knowledge Project · Australia
Dancecult: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 32 weeks (community reports); 20 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Dancecult is published by Public Knowledge Project. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Music History and Culture, Arts and Performance Studies and Musicology and Musical Analysis, together about 54.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture (EMDC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EMDCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on electronic music and dance culture.From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dubstep, EDM to IDM, to noisecore, nortec and bloghouse, global EMDCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema, literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of electronic music and its dance culture, and how might the latter challenge the assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal of the international EMDC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries across all disciplines. Dancecult has a long history of publishing guest edited issues and welcomes proposals for special content. To that end, if you have an idea for a guest edited issue on a relevant subject please contact Executive Editor Graham St John at g.stjohn[@]dancecult.net. Dancecult is published once a year by the University of Huddersfield and with the support of Maynooth University. Dancecult is fully indexed with Scopus, DOAJ, EuroPub and RILM. Dancecult is also ranked by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes – in the list of class A journals for artistic sciences (area 10, C1) and in the list of scientific journals for political and social sciences (area 14).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 6, Germany 2, Australia 2, United States 1, Ireland 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Music History and CultureArts and Humanities27.8%
- Arts and Performance StudiesArts and Humanities14.2%
- Musicology and Musical AnalysisArts and Humanities12.4%
- Music Technology and Sound StudiesComputer Science9.5%
- Night-time city cultureSocial Sciences6.2%
- Diversity and Impact of DancePsychology4.8%
- Sound Studies and AuralityPsychology3.7%
- Art, Technology, and CultureArts and Humanities3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | Q2 | 176/697 | 74th |
| Music | Q2 | 77/196 | 60th |
| Cultural Studies | Q2 | 608/1434 | 57th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.12LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.27OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 361 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 193 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 131 |
| 2023 | 16 | 16 | 252 |
| 2022 | 16 | 16 | 301 |
| 2021 | 19 | 19 | 161 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 32 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 32 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
Article types accepted1, with length limits
- reviewen, conference, festival and exhibition reviews relating to electronic music and dance culture studies (1500 words maximum). For reviewing ideas and suggestions…main text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright; CC BY-NC-SA license. Model summary
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-ex…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access: journal is open-access Model summary
Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture (EMDC).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review for feature articles; authors must anonymize manuscripts. Model summary
The evaluation process for feature articles in Dancecult is completely anonymous. Therefore, authors must ensure that their feature article manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity, directly or indirectly.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Public Knowledge Project
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1947-5403
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 17, Issue 1 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Dancecult
How long does peer review take at Dancecult?
Authors report an average review time of about 32 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Dancecult based?
Of the 12 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (6), Germany (2) and Australia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Dancecult?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Dancecult is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Dancecult open access, and what is the APC?
Dancecult is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .