Journal of Contemporary Drama in English

Journal of Contemporary Drama in English is published by Walter de Gruyter 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 Theatre and Performance Studies, Irish and British Studies and Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism, together about 59% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal The current volume of Journal of Contemporary Drama in English is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.ObjectiveThe Journal of Contemporary Drama in English focuses on issues in co ntemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. It renegotiates the understanding of contemporary aesthetics of drama and theatre by treating dramatic texts of the last fifty years. The peer-reviewed journal publishes essays that engage in close readings of plays and also touch upon historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological aspects of contemporary drama, the atre and performance. JCDE appears twice a year: volume one is a special issue based on the annual international conferences held by the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English, volume two invites individual essays on contemporary theatre and drama in English. The journal also contains a review section.We are very happy to announce that the special issue on Critical Theatre Ecologies (JCDE 10.1) was one of only three books shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Researc h Association (TaPRA) AWARD 2023. Topicscontemporary Anglophone dramatic literaturetheatre performanceArticle formatsArticles, Reviews> Information on submission process Your Benefits Your benefits: Wide range of aspects of contemporary drama and theatre Theoretical and methodological contributions Contemporary drama and theatre aesthetics in the context of other social phenomena Rigorous peer-review Complete Archive AccessAs of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost. History The Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE) was founded in 2013 and is run by the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Other publications in the field: Anglia - Journal of English Philology Theatron Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Contemporary Drama in English Studies

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Research area (LetPub): THEATER

Editor-in-chief Anette PankratzPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

12OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

12OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.28OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

34.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

19LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

2195-0156

Electronic ISSN

2195-0164

Official links

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