Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Grey Room
ISSN 1526-3819 · eISSN 1536-0105 · MIT Press
Grey Room: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.7 (journal website); subscription journal; 16 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Grey Room is published by MIT Press 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 Art, Politics, and Modernism, Architecture, Modernity, and Design and Photography and Visual Culture, together about 31.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room emphasizes aesthetic practice and historical and theoretical discourse that appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities14.1%
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering10.1%
- Photography and Visual CultureArts and Humanities7.4%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities6.4%
- Cinema and Media StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.9%
- Architecture and Art History StudiesArts and Humanities5.9%
- Walter Benjamin Studies CompilationArts and Humanities4.9%
- Art, Technology, and CultureArts and Humanities4.9%
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 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview 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 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- h-index
- 39OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 154OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.61OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 747 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 16 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | 36 | 9 | 41 |
| 2023 | 29 | 10 | 74 |
| 2022 | 22 | 3 | 20 |
| 2021 | 23 | 3 | 33 |
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.
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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISSN
- 1526-3819
- Electronic ISSN
- 1536-0105
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Grey Room
What CAS zone is Grey Room in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Grey Room is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Grey Room?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.7 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.5, h-index 39.
Which databases index Grey Room?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Grey Room is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Grey Room open access, and what is the APC?
Grey Room is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .