Journal profile · ART
Visual Resources
ISSN 0197-3762 · eISSN 1477-2809 · Taylor & Francis
Visual Resources: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.1 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; review about 24 days (submission to first decision, publisher); acceptance rate 36% (journal website); 1 articles a year; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2024 (Volume 39, Issue 1-2): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Visual Resources is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Human auditory perception and evaluation, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and Photography and Visual Culture, together about 35.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Since its founding in 1980, Visual Resources has published more than a thousand articles spanning the widest range of topics concerning images and their uses. The journal’s approach is interdisciplinary and expansive, and its contributors have interpreted such varied forms as paper currency, plaster casts, and scientific visualizations. The journal welcomes submissions of research articles, article commentary, book reviews and artist projects from scholars of art, architecture, film and media, and other forms of cultural production studying the image worlds of all periods and places. Visual Resources has a long history of publishing innovative scholarship on the borders between art history and other fields of visual, material, and digital culture. The dissemination of photographic media and other forms of print reproduction – including posters, postcards, periodicals, and more – is a key focus for contributions to the journal. The journal participates in key methodological discussions in the field, including important contributions to the global turn, visual culture studies, and digital art history. Recent special issues have brought together work on such timely topics as the imagery of financial crisis and the visual culture of the pandemic. Other areas of ongoing focus include the changing visual infrastructures of art pedagogy, collecting and the market, art publishing, the legal and regulatory landscape of image reproduction, including copyright, and critical analyses of the ever-proliferating forms of digital imaging that define contemporary visual culture. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone peer review, based on initial Editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two readers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ART
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering12.9%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance12.5%
- Photography and Visual CultureArts and Humanities10.1%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities7.9%
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesSocial Sciences6.4%
- Art History and Market AnalysisArts and Humanities6.1%
- Museums and Cultural HeritageArts and Humanities5.5%
- Legal case studies and regulationsSocial Sciences5.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
OCLC, America: History and Life, Art Index, ARTbibliographies Modern, BHA Bibliography of the History of Art, Current Abstracts, Design and Applied Arts Index, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International IndexPublisher 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
- 0.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.11Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.11Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 70OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.11OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 1LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 33,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,424 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2022 | 19 | 6 | 21 |
| 2021 | 17 | 9 | 22 |
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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 36%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 24 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 accepted4
- article commentaryThe journal welcomes submissions of research articles, article commentary, book reviews and artist projectsLength not stated
- artist projectsThe journal welcomes submissions of research articles, article commentary, book reviews and artist projectsLength not stated
- book reviewsThe journal welcomes submissions of research articles, article commentary, book reviews and artist projectsLength not stated
- research articlesThe journal welcomes submissions of research articles, article commentary, book reviews and artist projectsLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Visual Resources 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 discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All research articles undergo peer review based on initial Editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two readers. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone peer review, based on initial Editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two readers.
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
- 0197-3762
- Electronic ISSN
- 1477-2809
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 39, Issue 1-2 (2024)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Visual Resources
What CAS zone is Visual Resources in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Visual Resources is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Art. 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 Visual Resources?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.8, h-index 24.
How long does peer review take at Visual Resources?
The publisher reports about 24 days (submission to first decision); first decisions include desk rejections; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 36%. 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 Visual Resources?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Visual Resources is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Visual Resources open access, and what is the APC?
Visual Resources 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .