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Journal of Musicology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by University of California Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0277-9269Verify ISSN ↗1533-8347Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 98 / 196 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1982–1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Musicology is Q2 in Music (rank 98 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Musicology 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Journal of Musicology is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 0277-9269 and its online ISSN is 1533-8347.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Musicology has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Journal of Musicology published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 20. 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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