Performance Research

Aims & Scope

Since 1996 Performance Research has set a precedent that has become standard for thematic and cross-disciplinary ways of bringing together the varied materials of artistic and theoretical research in the expanded field of performance.

Working closely with designers, artists, academics, theorists, performance practitioners and writers Performance Research resists disconnected, disembodied, and disinterested forms of scholarship.

We prefer instead the possibilities of imagining the journal as a dynamic space of performance that produces inspiring conversations, unlikely connections, and curious confluences.

Our emphasis on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures and technologies is reflected in the interdisciplinary vision and international scope of the journal.

Performance Research continues to combine writings and works for the page in an interplay of analysis, anecdote, polemic and criticism; interweaving the oblique with the conflicting, the pivotal with the resistant, and the eclectic with the indispensable.

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening (by the guest editor), refereeing by at least two referees, and consultation with the journal editors and board.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.159

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	24

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23817

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	62

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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.

• Performance Remains

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Rebecca

• Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Barbara

• Audience Participation and Neoliberal Value: Risk, agency and responsibility in immersive theatre

  Citation: 64

  Authors: Adam

• ‘I've Got You Under My Skin’ Queer assemblages, lyrical nostalgia and the African diaspora

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Tavia

• Affective Habit Ecologies: Material dispositions and immanent inhabitations

  Citation: 56

  Authors: J–D

• Practice-as-research and the Problem of Knowledge

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Robin

• Notes towards a Performance Theory of Orature

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Ngũgĩ Wa

• Surfaces and Slopes

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Hayden

• ‘When This You See’: The (anti) radical time of mobile self-surveillance

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Sarah

• LOOP (a geography)

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Hayden, John

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