International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media draws its contributions from academics and practitioner-researchers at the interface of new media technologies and performance.

It acts as a forum for critical scholarship, innovative practice, and creative pedagogy, addressing themes that may be domain-specific (e.g. theatre, dance, music, live art, computer science) or situated at the convergence of two or more disciplines.

The journal invites original, significant, and rigorous inquiry into all subjects within or across disciplines related to performance and digital media.

It encourages debate and cross-disciplinary exchange across a broad range of approaches.

The spectrum of topics include: · cultural mediatization · distributed non-linear performance · virtual/physical bodies · interactive performative installation · realtime music performance interfaces These topics are addressed in full-length academic articles, critical statements on current issues, developmental practice, and reviews of books and live/media-based performances.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.9
2024	0.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16116

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	89

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.316

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

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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 and Social Sciences, 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.

• From video streaming to virtual reality worlds: an academic, reflective, and creative study on live theatre and performance in the metaverse

  Citation: 61

  Authors: António, Mark

• A history of virtual reality in performance

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Steve

• Performing in (virtual) spaces: Embodiment and being in virtual environments

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Jacquelyn Ford

• Two decades of digital pedagogies in the performing arts: a comparative survey of theatre, performance, and dance

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Caroline

• From post-Brechtian performance to post-Brechtian cinema: Shirley Clarke’s adaptation of The Living Theatre’s production of The Connection

  Citation: 21

  Authors: ANGELOS

• Seeing and feeling in VR: bodily perception in the gaps between layered realities

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Lisa May, David R.

• From social network to urban intervention: On the scenographies of flash mobs and urban swarms

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Thea

• Breath, skin and clothing: Using wearable technologies as an interface into ourselves

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Thecla

• Covid-19: theatre goes digital – provocations

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Maria, Kevin, Nick, Peter, Toni

• Exploring the potential of virtual reality technology to investigate the health and well being benefits of group singing

  Citation: 18

  Authors: H., D. A., H., A. J., G., C., J.

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