Text and Performance Quarterly

Aims & Scope

Text and Performance Quarterly (TPQ) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association.

TPQ publishes original scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, critical, communicative practice; as a theoretical lens; as a critical method; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic.

Scholarship in TPQ addresses performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and it investigates sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life.

In addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical essays, photo essays, interviews, and performance texts/scripts.

TPQ also features a “Performance Space” section that documents performances and situates and critiques them in relation to performance studies theory and praxis.

For more details about how to submit your research to TPQ , please review our Instructions for Authors.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.198

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	37

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	21263

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	48

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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.

• "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother

  Citation: 386

  Authors: E. Patrick

• Personal narratives: Perspectives on theory and research

  Citation: 246

  Authors: Kristin M.

• Personal narrative, performance, performativity: Two or three things I know for sure

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Kristin M.

• Performing theory/embodied writing

  Citation: 98

  Authors: D. Soyini

• Autoethnography's Family Values: Easy Access to Compulsory Experiences

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Craig

• Performing culture in the classroom: An instructional (auto) ethnography

  Citation: 79

  Authors: Bryant Keith

• "Slaves with white collars": Persistent performances of masculinity in crisis

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Karen Lee, Lisa A.

• Poetics, play, process, and power: The performative turn in anthropology

  Citation: 75

  Authors: Dwight

• The Dialogic Performative in Critical Ethnography

  Citation: 75

  Authors: D.

• Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State

  Citation: 74

  Authors: M. Lane

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