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Acta Musicologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by International Musicological Society.
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ISSN 0001-6241Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Musicological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 70 / 196 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2013 (also 2016–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Acta Musicologica is Q2 in Music (rank 70 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Musicologica is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.157, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Acta Musicologica is published by International Musicological Society. Its ISSN is 0001-6241.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Musicologica has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Acta Musicologica published 2 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 12. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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