Scopus subject area
Best Museology journals
95 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Museology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 24 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.
| # | Journal | CiteScore | Percentile | Quartile | WoS | ABDC | OA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval | 5.2 | 99th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 2 | International Journal of Heritage Studies | 4.7 | 98th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | B | No |
| 3 | Museum Management and Curatorship | 4.3 | 97th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 4 | American Antiquity | 3.7 | 96th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 5 | Visitor Studies | 3.4 | 95th | Q1 | ESCI | A | No |
| 6 | Collection and Curation | 2.9 | 94th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 7 | American Museum Novitates | 2.3 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Muzeologia a Kulturne Dedicstvo | 2 | 92nd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 9 | Records of the Australian Museum | 1.9 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 10 | International Journal of Cultural Property | 1.9 | 90th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 11 | Curator | 1.8 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 12 | Museum Anthropology | 1.6 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 13 | Journal of the American Institute for Conservation | 1.6 | 86th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 14 | Journal of Museum Education | 1.6 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 15 | Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies | 1.5 | 84th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 16 | History of Science and Technology | 1.5 | 83rd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 17 | International Journal of Intangible Heritage | 1.3 | 82nd | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 18 | Ukrainian Numismatic Annual | 1.2 | 81st | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 19 | Museum and Society | 1.1 | 80th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 20 | Studies in Digital Heritage | 1.1 | 79th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 21 | Magazen | 1 | 78th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 22 | Museum Worlds | 1 | 77th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 23 | International Journal of the Inclusive Museum | 0.9 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 24 | Boletin de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras | 0.9 | 75th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 25 | Museums and Social Issues | 0.8 | 73rd | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 26 | Visual Resources | 0.8 | 72nd | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 27 | Museologica Brunensia | 0.8 | 71st | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 28 | Conservar Patrimonio | 0.7 | 70th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 29 | Revista del Museo de Antropologia | 0.7 | 69th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 30 | Museum International | 0.7 | 68th | Q2 | AHCI | – | No |
| 31 | IS and T Archiving Conference, ARCHIVING | 0.6 | 67th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 32 | Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage | 0.6 | 66th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 33 | American Historical Review | 0.6 | 65th | Q2 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 34 | Studia Universitatis Hereditati | 0.6 | 64th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 35 | Ge-Conservacion | 0.6 | 63rd | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 36 | Boletin Cientifico del Centro de Museos | 0.5 | 61st | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 37 | Slavia Antiqua | 0.5 | 60th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 38 | Journal of the History of Collections | 0.5 | 59th | Q2 | AHCI | – | No |
| 39 | Revista de Arqueologia | 0.5 | 58th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 40 | Asian-European Music Research Journal | 0.5 | 57th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 41 | AICCM Bulletin | 0.5 | 56th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 42 | Shedet | 0.4 | 55th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 43 | Public Historian | 0.4 | 54th | Q2 | AHCI | – | No |
| 44 | Annals of the Naprstek Museum | 0.4 | 53rd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 45 | Diferents | 0.4 | 52nd | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 46 | Metropolitan Museum Journal | 0.4 | 51st | Q2 | AHCI | – | No |
| 47 | Raport Archeologiczny | 0.3 | 50th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 48 | Glasnik SED | 0.3 | 49th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 49 | South African Museums Association Bulletin | 0.3 | 48th | Q3 | ESCI | – | No |
| 50 | ICOFOM Study Series | 0.3 | 47th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 51 | Biuletyn Uniejowski | 0.3 | 46th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 52 | Laboratorio de Arte | 0.3 | 45th | Q3 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 53 | Boletin del Museo del Prado | 0.3 | 44th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 54 | Getty Research Journal | 0.3 | 43rd | Q3 | AHCI | – | Yes |
| 55 | Capitale Culturale | 0.3 | 42nd | Q3 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 56 | Journal of Curatorial Studies | 0.3 | 41st | Q3 | ESCI | – | No |
| 57 | Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists | 0.3 | 40th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 58 | Anais do Museu Paulista | 0.3 | 39th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 59 | Museum History Journal | 0.3 | 38th | Q3 | ESCI | – | No |
| 60 | Senjski Zbornik | 0.3 | 36th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 61 | Vojenska Historia | 0.2 | 35th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 62 | Kunstkamera | 0.2 | 34th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 63 | Studia Historica Nitriensia | 0.2 | 33rd | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 64 | Cadernos de Sociomuseologia | 0.2 | 32nd | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 65 | Art History and Criticism | 0.2 | 31st | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 66 | MIDAS | 0.2 | 30th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 67 | Brukenthal. Acta Musei | 0.2 | 29th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 68 | Quiroga | 0.2 | 28th | Q3 | ESCI | – | No |
| 69 | Muzealnictwo | 0.2 | 27th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 70 | Culture et Musees | 0.2 | 26th | Q3 | AHCI | – | Yes |
| 71 | Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization | 0.2 | 25th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 72 | Notes Konserwatorski | 0.2 | 24th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 73 | Ad Limina | 0.1 | 23rd | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 74 | Intrecci d'Arte | 0.1 | 21st | Q4 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 75 | Pamietnik Biblioteki Kornickiej | 0.1 | 21st | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 76 | International Journal on Stereo and Immersive Media | 0.1 | 20th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 77 | Terra Sebus | 0.1 | 19th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 78 | Acta Musei Napocensis. Historica | 0.1 | 18th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 79 | Polish Libraries | 0.1 | 17th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 80 | Ademas de | 0.1 | 15th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 81 | Archivo de Arte Valenciano | 0.1 | 15th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 82 | Ars Adriatica | 0.1 | 13th | Q4 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 83 | Istrazivanja Journal of Historical Researches | 0.1 | 13th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 84 | Periferica Internacional | 0.1 | 11th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 85 | Disclosing Collections | 0.1 | 10th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 86 | Winterthur Portfolio | 0.1 | 10th | Q4 | AHCI | – | No |
| 87 | Museum | 0.1 | 8th | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 88 | Etnolog | 0.1 | 7th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 89 | Przeglad Zachodniopomorski | 0.1 | 6th | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 90 | Zivot Umjetnosti | 0.1 | 6th | Q4 | AHCI | – | No |
| 91 | Archives of American Art Journal | 0.1 | 4th | Q4 | AHCI | – | No |
| 92 | Revue des Musees de France | 0 | 3rd | Q4 | AHCI | – | No |
| 93 | Histories of Postwar Architecture | 0 | 2nd | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
| 94 | Monumenta Graeca et Romana | 0 | 1st | Q4 | – | – | No |
| 95 | Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, Nowa Seria | 0 | 1st | Q4 | – | – | Yes |
Rank and percentile are within the Museology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.