Journal profile
Transformative Works and Cultures
ISSN 1941-2258 · Organization for Transformative Works · United States
Transformative Works and Cultures: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 42 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Transformative Works and Cultures is published by Organization for Transformative Works. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics, Gender, Feminism, and Media and Media and Digital Communication, together about 45.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works. TWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived and articles about the fan community. We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, fan art, comic books, cosplay, fan community, music, video games, celebrities and machinima. We encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship; hyperlinked articles; or other forms that test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Submissions: Authors need to register as authors with the journal before submitting, or if already registered as authors can simply log in and begin the five-step process of submission. TWC does not levy author fees.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Literature, Culture, and AestheticsArts and Humanities20.5%
- Gender, Feminism, and MediaSocial Sciences14.6%
- Media and Digital CommunicationComputer Science10.3%
- Digital Games and MediaSocial Sciences7.8%
- Asian Culture and Media StudiesSocial Sciences6.1%
- Gender and Feminist StudiesSocial Sciences6%
- Music History and CultureArts and Humanities3.1%
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary CriticismArts and Humanities2.7%
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
- 34OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 137OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.35OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,112 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 55 | 55 | 287 |
| 2025 | 42 | 42 | 371 |
| 2024 | 56 | 56 | 614 |
| 2023 | 39 | 39 | 1,414 |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 513 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 518 |
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 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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 | |
| 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 accepted6, with length limits
- articleHTML Article Doing fandom, doing disability: Decolonial perspectives to Marvel superhero fan fiction Divya Garg HTMLLength not stated
- book reviewTWC reviews books and other texts of interest to the general fan studies audience and will only print reviews within 3 years of the text’s copyright date. Publi…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- editorialEditorial Building disability fan studies Olivia Johnston Riley, Lauren Rouse HTML ArticleLength not stated
- multimediaMultimedia TWC’s Multimedia section publishes video essays, comics, and other formats that combine text with other media. Multimedia welcomes submissions by fan…Length not stated
- reviewymposium, a maximum of 4,000 words. For reviews, a maximum of 2,500 words. All of these length requirements include notes and referenmain text ≤ 2,500 words
- symposiumSymposium TWC’s Symposium section publishes concise, thematically contained papers. Symposium welcomes texts by fans and academics alike. Texts should provide i…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Data availability, License & copyright
- AI use AI Policy
Generative AI tools strictly prohibited for composing or translating article text; submissions with clear evidence rejected without revision. Model summary
TWC strictly prohibits the use of generative AI tools for composing or translating article text. Submissions with clear evidence that generative AI was used for these purposes, such as citations to sources that do not exist, will be rejected without the chance for revision. Use of generative AI tools for non-composition tasks must be clearly disclosed and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Abides by the OTW Terms of Service regarding data collection, use, and processing Model summary
TWC abides by the OTW Terms of Service, which explain why and how we collect, use, and process information that you provide to us.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license Model summary
TWC Nos. 25 onward are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC by 4.0). For an explanation of the journal's reasoning, see the TWC editorial Copyright and Open Access. TWC Nos. 1 through 24 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, with TWC, not the author, retaining copyright. Presses whose policies req…
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
- Organization for Transformative Works
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1941-2258
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 48 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- 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 Transformative Works and Cultures
How long does peer review take at Transformative Works and Cultures?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 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 Transformative Works and Cultures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Transformative Works and Cultures is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Transformative Works and Cultures open access, and what is the APC?
Transformative Works and Cultures 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: .