Journal profile
The Open Arts Journal
ISSN 2050-3679 · The Open University · United Kingdom
The Open Arts Journal: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 26 weeks (community reports); 8 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
The Open Arts Journal is published by The Open University. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Art, Politics, and Modernism, Visual Culture and Art Theory and Architecture, Modernity, and Design, together about 33.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Open Arts Journal addresses the demand for a rigorously compiled, peer-reviewed platform for arts scholarship open to diverse participants. Our dissemination is global, spanning multiple communities including practitioners and historians of art, architecture and design, curators and arts policy-makers, and researchers in the arts and heritage sectors.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Leon WainwrightPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities16%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities9.3%
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering7.8%
- Architecture and Art History StudiesArts and Humanities6.2%
- Historical Art and Architecture StudiesArts and Humanities5.5%
- Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesArts and Humanities4.3%
- Libraries and Information ServicesArts and Humanities3.9%
- Photographic and Visual ArtsArts and Humanities3.5%
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
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.05OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 135 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 33 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 63 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 | 16 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 26 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 26 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Editorial 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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 accepted1
- editorialOpen Arts Journal is a peer-reviewed journal, published online and accessible to all. Special editions may also be published as hard copies. Material to be cons…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Plagiarism
- Authorship
Authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restrictions. Model summary
Authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restrictions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
No previously published material; plagiarism checks on all submissions. Model summary
Open Arts Journal does not publish previously published material and checks all submissions for plagiarism against previously published material.
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
- The Open University
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2050-3679
- 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
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about The Open Arts Journal
How long does peer review take at The Open Arts Journal?
Authors report an average review time of about 26 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.
Which databases index The Open Arts Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, The Open Arts Journal is indexed in DOAJ.
Is The Open Arts Journal open access, and what is the APC?
The Open Arts Journal 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .