Journal profile · COMMUNICATION
Media Tropes
ISSN 1913-6005 · University of Toronto Libraries · Canada
Media Tropes: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 52 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2022 (Volume 8, Issue 2): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Media Tropes is published by University of Toronto Libraries. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature, Visual Culture and Art Theory and Museums and Cultural Heritage, together about 28.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Museology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
MediaTropes is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to the critical study of media and mediation. Media are never merely channels or instruments. Media are tropic: as rhetorical figures, they turn, translate, transform, and effect the conditions through which meaning, experience, subjectivity, and collective life become possible. To study media from this perspective is therefore not simply to analyze objects or technologies, but to examine the forms of mediation through which worlds are disclosed, identities are constituted, and publics are assembled. Drawing on traditions of media theory, rhetoric, critical theory, cultural studies, and the humanities, MediaTropespublishes theoretical, interpretive, historical, aesthetic, and cultural scholarship on media and mediation. We are particularly interested in work that attends to the tropological dimensions of mediation and to the ways media shape the horizons of experience, culture, and collective life. The journal welcomes humanities-based and critical approaches to a wide range of historical and contemporary problems of mediation, including but not limited to: Affect, embodiment, identity, and mediated experience Algorithmic governance and computational mediation Cultures of artificial intelligence Digital publics, networked cultures, and collective life Environmental media and planetary crisis Media theory and media archaeology Mediations of race, ethnicity, coloniality, and/or gender Memory, archives, and cultural transmission Posthuman and more-than-human worlds Rhetoric, tropes, and scenes of address Surveillance, datafication, and control Technoculture and everyday life
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 8, United States 3, United Kingdom 1, France 1, Italy 1 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureArts and Humanities11.1%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities11.1%
- Museums and Cultural HeritageArts and Humanities6.7%
- Cinema History and CriticismArts and Humanities6.7%
- Libraries and Information ServicesArts and Humanities6.7%
- Rhetoric and Communication StudiesArts and Humanities4.4%
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering4.4%
- Photography and Visual CultureArts and Humanities4.4%
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.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 22 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
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 52 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 52 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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
- Reference style
- Chicago
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Model summary
Artificial intelligence systems, including large language models (LLMs), cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of submissions. Authors are responsible for all aspects of submitted work and must ensure the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their scholarship. Any use of generative AI in the preparation of a submission must be disclosed, including the tool used and the nature of its contrib…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship
Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date system) required. Model summary
Manuscripts should normally follow the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date system). Accepted manuscripts must conform to this style prior to publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright; journal granted right of first publication. Model summary
Authors retain copyright in their work and grant MediaTropes the right of first publication. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
MediaTropes is an open-access journal. All content is freely available to readers immediately upon publication without subscription or access fees. Authors retain copyright of their work and grant MediaTropes the right of first publication. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. This licence…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-blind peer review required; identifying references removed from manuscript and file metadata. Model summary
All submissions are first assessed by the editors for their relevance to the journal’s focus and scope, as well as their scholarly quality and originality. Manuscripts selected for external review are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process involving at least two expert reviewers. The editors make final decisions regarding publication in light of reviewer reports and the journal’s edi…
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
- University of Toronto Libraries
- Country or region
- Canada
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1913-6005
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022)
- 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 Media Tropes
How long does peer review take at Media Tropes?
Authors report an average review time of about 52 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 Media Tropes based?
Of the 16 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Canada (8), United States (3) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Media Tropes?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Media Tropes is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Media Tropes open access, and what is the APC?
Media Tropes 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .