Studies in Musical Theatre

Aims & Scope

Studies in Musical Theatre considers areas of live performance that use vocal and instrumental music in conjunction with theatrical performance as a principal part of their expressive language.

The journal is double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.130

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	4

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26318

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	11

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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.

• The Black Broadway voice: calls and responses

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Masi

• Hamilton’s women

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Stacy

• Integration through the wide open back door: African Americans respond to Flower Drum Song (1958)

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Kathryn

• Memories that remain: Mamma Mia! and the disruptive potential of nostalgia

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Naomi

• Billy Elliot The Musical: visual representations of working-class masculinity and the all-singing, all-dancing bo[d]y

  Citation: 5

  Authors: George

• West Side Story and The Music Man: whiteness, immigration, and race in the US during the late 1950s

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Carol J

• ‘Is this what it takes just to make it to Broadway?!’: Marketing In the Heights in the twenty-first century

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Elizabeth Titrington

• ‘Why We Build the Wall’: Hegemony, memory and current events in Hadestown

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Valerie Lynn

• Celebrating heteroglossic hybridity: Ready-to-assemble Broadway-style musicals in South Korea

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Hyewon

• Just another Puerto Rican with a knife? Racism and reception on the Great White Way

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Judith A

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