Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America
ISSN 0361-2112 · eISSN 2042-1729 · Taylor & Francis
Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 221 days to acceptance (24 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 13% (journal website); 33 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fashion and Cultural Textiles, Crafts, Textile, and Design and Art, Politics, and Modernism, together about 60.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Dress, the journal of the Costume Society of America, has been in publication since 1975. It represents the highest level of scholarship and addresses many diverse areas of study including examinations of dress in art, social history, anthropology, and material culture. The journal also invites work on fundamental concerns such as theory, research methods, and analytical and interpretative papers that describe and place dress in cultural or historical context. Areas of interest include: •Material culture studies •Dress in its many contexts: social, cultural, historical •Scholarship in the exhibition of dress •Art and design of dress •Dress historiography, research methodology, and theory •Forums for topics that shape the field of dress scholarship
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Fashion and Cultural TextilesArts and Humanities40.4%
- Crafts, Textile, and DesignArts and Humanities12.4%
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities7.9%
- Historical Gender and Feminism StudiesSocial Sciences6.9%
- Decadence, Literature, and SocietySocial Sciences3.2%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering2.9%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science2.9%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Current ContentsPublisher website
Other: America: History and Life, Art Abstracts, Art Index, Artbibliographies Modern+, Bibliography of the History of Art, British Humanities Index, Clothing and Textile Arts Index, Design and Applied Art Index, Historical Abstracts, Modern Language Association Bibliography, Sociological Abstracts
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.13Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.12OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.56%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 14LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 40,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 676 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 33 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | 37 | 7 | 10 |
| 2023 | 27 | 3 | 14 |
| 2022 | 33 | 6 | 115 |
| 2021 | 20 | 4 | 37 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
221 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 169 days – 285 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 36 days (24 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 266 days
- Sample
- 24 articles with submission and acceptance dates (81 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 13%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 47 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 94 daysPublisher website ·
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- book reviewsBook Review Editor: Nazli Alimen (Birmingham City University, UK)Length not stated
- exhibition reviewsExhibition Review Editor: Jean E. McElvain (Goldstein Museum-UMN, USA)Length not stated
- research articlesanalytical and interpretative papers that describe and place dress in cultural or historical contextLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program). Model summary
Dress is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and readership of you…
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0361-2112
- Electronic ISSN
- 2042-1729
- Society / sponsor
- Costume Society of America
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 52, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America
What CAS zone is Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.4, h-index 16.
How long does peer review take at Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America?
Based on the dates recorded on 24 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 221 days (interquartile range 169–285 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 13%. 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.
Which databases index Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America is indexed in AHCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America open access, and what is the APC?
Dress-The Journal of the Costume Society of America is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .