Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Text and Performance Quarterly
ISSN 1046-2937 · eISSN 1479-5760 · Taylor & Francis
Text and Performance Quarterly: CAS Zone 2 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 183 days to acceptance (50 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 12% (journal website); 37 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Text and Performance Quarterly is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Theatre and Performance Studies, Rhetoric and Communication Studies and Human auditory perception and evaluation, together about 36% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Text and Performance Quarterly (TPQ) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. TPQ publishes original scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, critical, communicative practice; as a theoretical lens; as a critical method; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Scholarship in TPQ addresses performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and it investigates sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life. In addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical essays, photo essays, interviews, and performance texts/scripts. TPQ also features a “Performance Space” section that documents performances and situates and critiques them in relation to performance studies theory and praxis. For more details about how to submit your research to TPQ , please review our Instructions for Authors. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees. Forum sections are discussion pieces typically invited and reviewed by the forum editor and journal editor only.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Kimberlee PérezPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Theatre and Performance StudiesArts and Humanities22.4%
- Rhetoric and Communication StudiesArts and Humanities7.9%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.7%
- Diversity and Impact of DancePsychology5.1%
- Theater, Performance, and Music HistoryArts and Humanities5.1%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.8%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences4.3%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
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 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q1 · 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
OCLC, British Humanities Index, Communication Abstracts, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Current Abstracts, Electronic Collections Online, Humanities Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, M L A International Bibliography, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, ScoINDEXPublisher website
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
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.08Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 48OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 294OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.49OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 50%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 25LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 46,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,560 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 37 | 8 | 17 |
| 2024 | 25 | 3 | 23 |
| 2023 | 32 | 3 | 30 |
| 2022 | 49 | 8 | 114 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4 | 208 |
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
183 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 111 days – 249 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (50 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 50 articles with submission and acceptance dates (73 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)
- 12%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 73 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 19 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 accepted7
- experimental critical essaysIn addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical ess…Length not stated
- forum sectionsForum sections are discussion pieces typically invited and reviewed by the forum editor and journal editor only.Length not stated
- interviewsIn addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical ess…Length not stated
- performance space sectionTPQ also features a “Performance Space” section that documents performances and situates and critiques them in relation to performance studies theory and praxis…Length not stated
- performance texts/scriptsIn addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical ess…Length not stated
- photo essaysIn addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical ess…Length not stated
- standard monographsIn addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical ess…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Text and Performance Quarterly 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 discoverabil…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: all research articles undergo rigorous peer review, including editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees. Model summary
Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees.
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
- 1046-2937
- Electronic ISSN
- 1479-5760
- Society / sponsor
- National Communication Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 46, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Text and Performance Quarterly
What CAS zone is Text and Performance Quarterly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Text and Performance Quarterly is in Zone 2 of Arts, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Text and Performance Quarterly?
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 0.7, h-index 48.
How long does peer review take at Text and Performance Quarterly?
Based on the dates recorded on 50 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 183 days (interquartile range 111–249 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 12%. 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 Text and Performance Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Text and Performance Quarterly is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Text and Performance Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
Text and Performance Quarterly 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: .