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Third Text has established itself as the leading international journal dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary art in the global field. It has brought with that analysis a particular focus on both the impact of globalisation on cultural practices and the lessons of postcolonial theory. The journal has created a significant archive of critical knowledge to benefit artists, researchers and art historians. Third Text offers a platform to pursue timely dialogue about experimental cultures, to advance independent education, and to study the historical and current conditions of art’s practice, reception and distribution worldwide.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles published in this journal have undergone peer review based on initial editorial screening.
Journal metrics
Usage
134K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
0.5 (2023) 5 year IF
0.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.143 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
30 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
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Impact Factor*:
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5 Year Impact Factor*:
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CiteScore (Scopus)†:
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= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
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potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
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Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
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journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
EDITORS Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Chair of Global Art at the University of Birmingham Glyn Davis Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland TJ Demos Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies Angela Dimitrakaki Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh Anthony Downey Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa at Birmingham City University; Editor-in-chief of Ibraaz Natasha Eaton Teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art and the visual culture of South Asia at University College London Kodwo Eshun Teaches on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London Denise Ferreira da Silva Professor & Director, The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ); Senior Faculty Fellow, St John’s College, University of British Columbia Reuben Fowkes Co-director of the Post-socialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL; co-founder of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, a centre for transnational research into East European art and ecology Ros Gray Senior lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London Nomusa Makhubu Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Cape Town, South Africa Basia Sliwinska Researcher at the Institute of Art History of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
WEBSITE MANAGER Nicola Gray
ARCHIVIST Galen Riley
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER Nicole-Ann Lobo
ADVISORY BOARD Gülsen Bal Programme Leader for MA/MFA Contemporary Curating, Manchester School of Art; and Director, Head of Development of Projects and Programmes, Open Space – Verein für ein neues Forum von Kunst und visueller Kultur, Vienna Iain Chambers Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Università degli Studi di Napoli Justin Clemens Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne Renate Dohmen Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, The Open University, Milton Keynes Jacqueline Francis Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture and Dean, Humanities and Sciences Division, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Dario Giugliano Professor of Aesthetics, Academy of Fine Arts, Naples Janis Jefferies Associate Pro-Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London Vinay Lal Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Bashir Makhoul Vice-Chancellor, University for the Creative Arts Derek Conrad Murray Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz Anamik Saha Lecturer in Media, Communications and Promotion, Goldsmiths University of London Arnd Schneider Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Eyal Weizman Professor of Visual Cultures and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London
Third Text is peer reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers.
TRUSTEES Alice Correia (Chair) Felicity Allen (Deputy Chair) Voon Pow Bartlett Simon Tegala
Third Text Ltd is a registered charity, no 11108974, governed by the board of trustees listed above. Third Text is published by Routledge on behalf of Third Text Ltd.
Third Text has established itself as the leading international journal dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary art in the global field. It has brought with that analysis a particular focus on both the impact of globalisation on cultural practices and the lessons of postcolonial theory.
Open Systems, Vienna, is a project and research partner of Third Text.
Abstracting and indexing
Third Text is indexed/abstracted in:
Art Index; ARTbibliographies Modern; BHA Bibliography of the History of Art; British Humanities Index; Current Abstracts; Film Literature Index; Humanities International Index; Index Islamicus; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; SCOPUS; Thomson Reuters’ Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
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