Dance Chronicle

Aims & Scope

For dance scholars, professors, practitioners, and aficionados, Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with the rapidly changing field of dance studies.

Dance Chronicle publishes research on a wide variety of Western and non-Western forms, including classical, avant-garde, and popular genres, often in connection with the related arts: music, literature, visual arts, theatre, and film.

Our purview encompasses research rooted in humanities-based paradigms: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, ethnographic, and multi-modal inquiries into dance as art and/or cultural practice.

Offering the best from both established and emerging dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal resource for those who love dance, past and present.

Recently, Dance Chronicle has featured special issues on visual arts and dance, literature and dance, music and dance, dance criticism, preserving dance as a living legacy, dancing identity in diaspora, choreographers at the cutting edge, Martha Graham, women choreographers in ballet, and ballet in a global world.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24895

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	15

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.145

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Ballet as ideology:<i>Giselle,</i>Act II

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Evan

• Gaga: Moving beyond Technique with Ohad Naharin in the Twenty-First Century

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Deborah Friedes

• Performing American: Ragtime Dancing as Participatory Minstrelsy

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Danielle

• Make It Maverick: Rethinking the “Make It Macho” Strategy for Men in Ballet

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Jennifer

• Dance and Difference: Toward an Individualization of the Pontian Self

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Magda, Stavroula

• Information Technology and the Arts: The Evolution of Computer Choreography during the Last Half Century

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Francisco

• Working with Doris Humphrey

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Pauline

• Ruth St. Denis and India's dance renaissance

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Uttara Asha

• From Gertrude Stein to Dance: Repetition and Time in Intersemiotic Translation

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Daniella, João

• Recycling Tradition: A Hawaiian Case Study

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Adrienne L.

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