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Journal of Music Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Music Therapy Association.
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ISSN 0022-2917Verify ISSN ↗2053-7395Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Music Therapy Association
Cost to publish: About US$3,737 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 12 / 196 | 94th | Q1 |
| Complementary and Manual Therapy | 7 / 22 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of Music Therapy is Q1 in Music (rank 12 of 196) and Q2 in Complementary and Manual Therapy (rank 7 of 22), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Music Therapy is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,737 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Music Therapy is published by American Music Therapy Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-2917 and its online ISSN is 2053-7395.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Music Therapy has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Journal of Music Therapy published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 32. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.1%), Australia (10.7%) and Israel (4.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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