Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Word & Image
ISSN 0266-6286 · eISSN 1943-2178 · Taylor & Francis
Word & Image: CAS Zone 2 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 395 days to acceptance (11 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 7% (journal website); 24 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Word & Image is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Visual Culture and Art Theory, Historical Art and Culture Studies and Historical and Religious Studies of Rome, together about 34.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are History and Classics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Word & Image is concerned with the encounters, dialogues, mutual collaboration, and tensions between verbal and visual languages, their media, and material forms. It provides a forum for humanities articles that address word and image relationships from all historical periods, traditions, and theoretical perspectives. Themed issues, guest-edited by specialists in the field, are an occasional feature of the journal. We also encourage proposals for new translations into English of foundational essays in the field. All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by both editors and anonymized refereeing. Readership: Literary critics, art historians and critics, linguisticians, cultural and social historians, philosophers and psychologists, members of academic departments of literature, art history, and media, communication, and cultural studies.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Catriona MacLeodPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities17.6%
- Historical Art and Culture StudiesArts and Humanities10%
- Historical and Religious Studies of RomeArts and Humanities6.9%
- Historical and Literary StudiesSocial Sciences6.7%
- Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesArts and Humanities6.2%
- Medieval Literature and HistoryArts and Humanities4.9%
- Byzantine Studies and HistoryArts and Humanities4.4%
- Renaissance Literature and CultureArts and Humanities3.9%
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 3 |
Top journal: noReview 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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 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
America: History and Life, Art Index, ARTbibliographies Modern, BHA Bibliography of the History of Art, British Humanities Index, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Current Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Index Islamicus, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, New Testament Abstracts, Periodicals Index OnlinePublisher 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
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.11Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.11Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 130OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.58OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.14%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 55,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,332 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 24 | 9 | 5 |
| 2024 | 20 | 3 | 29 |
| 2023 | 29 | 5 | 7 |
| 2022 | 32 | 8 | 8 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4 | 27 |
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
395 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 139 days – 549 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 246 days (11 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 811 days
- Sample
- 11 articles with submission and acceptance dates (43 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)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 43 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 189 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 516 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 43 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 accepted2
- introductionIntroduction | Published online: 17 Aug 2026Length not stated
- research articleResearch Article | Published online: 17 Aug 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Word & Image 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 readership…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Rigorous peer review, initial screening by editors and anonymized refereeing. Model summary
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by both editors and anonymized refereeing.
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
- 0266-6286
- Electronic ISSN
- 1943-2178
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Word & Image
What CAS zone is Word & Image in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Word & Image is in Zone 2 of Arts, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. 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 Word & Image?
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 0.4, h-index 33.
How long does peer review take at Word & Image?
Based on the dates recorded on 11 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 395 days (interquartile range 139–549 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7%. 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 Word & Image?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Word & Image is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is Word & Image open access, and what is the APC?
Word & Image is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: 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: .