Dance Research

Aims & Scope

Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research, is a bi-annual internationally peer reviewed journal.

It welcomes high quality original research articles on dance worldwide both historical and contemporary.

The journal aims to engage with current debates on dance and across cognate disciplines with dance at the centre of inquiry.

In addition, the journal publishes book reviews, notes on archives dedicated to dance, and selected translations into English of key material on dance.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.127

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

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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.

• Arousal Decrease in<i>Sleeping Beauty</i>: Audiences' Neurophysiological Correlates to Watching a Narrative Dance Performance of two-and-a-half hours

  Citation: 24

  Authors: C., F. E., M. H.

• Points in Mental Space: an Interdisciplinary Study of Imagery in Movement Creation

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Jon, Beatriz, Scott, Wayne, Rhodri, Adrian M., Michele, Cristina, Philip

• Is Dance a Language? Movement, Meaning and Communication

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Henrietta

• Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Valeria Lo, David H. K.

• The Methodological Challenges of Research into Dance for People with Parkinson's

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Sara

• Learning and Synchronising Dance Movements in South African Songs – Cross-cultural Motion-capture Study

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Himberg, Thompson

• Movement and Meaning: Dance in Social Anthropological Perspective

  Citation: 19

  Authors: John

• Dance Under Trial: The Moral Debate 1200-1600

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Alessandro

• Bourdieu, the Body, and Graham's Post-War Dance

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Gay

• Discourses of Subversion: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Capoeira and Parkour

  Citation: 17

  Authors: SOPHIE

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