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Computer Music Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS AHCI/SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 0148-9267Verify ISSN ↗1531-5169Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 16 / 196 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Media Technology | 31 / 83 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 637 / 1022 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1982–1991), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Computer Music Journal is Q1 in Music (rank 16 of 196), Q2 in Media Technology (rank 31 of 83) and Q3 in Computer Science Applications (rank 637 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Computer Music Journal is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.318, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
Computer Music Journal is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0148-9267 and its online ISSN is 1531-5169.
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 and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Computer Music Journal has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Computer Music Journal published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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.
In its latest 51 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.5%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and Italy (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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