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192 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Music. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 46 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Musicae Scientiae 5.7 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
2 Psychology of Music 5.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
3 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
4 Research Studies in Music Education 4.9 98th Q1 ESCI – No
5 International Journal of Music Education 4 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
6 AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 3.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Research in Music Education 3.8 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
8 Acta Acustica 2.9 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Music Perception 2.9 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
10 Music and Science 2.7 95th Q1 – – Yes
11 JASA Express Letters 2.6 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
12 Journal of Music Therapy 2.5 94th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Music Education Research 2.5 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
14 Update: Applications of Research in Music Education 2.5 93rd Q1 – – No
15 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2.3 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
16 Computer Music Journal 2.2 92nd Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
17 Music Theory Spectrum 2.2 91st Q1 AHCI – No
18 Popular Music and Society 2.2 91st Q1 AHCI – No
19 Journal of Music Teacher Education 2 89th Q1 ESCI – No
20 Traditiones 2 89th Q1 – – Yes
21 British Journal of Music Education 2 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
22 Tejuelo. Didactica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educacion 1.9 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 Journal of New Music Research 1.8 87th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
24 Journal of Creative Music Systems 1.8 86th Q1 – – Yes
25 Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 1.7 86th Q1 AHCI – No
26 Popular Music 1.7 85th Q1 AHCI – No
27 Journal of African Cultural Studies 1.6 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
28 Music Therapy Perspectives 1.6 84th Q1 ESCI – No
29 Journal of Mathematics and Music 1.5 84th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
30 Music Theory Online 1.5 83rd Q1 AHCI – Yes
31 Voice and Speech Review 1.4 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
32 International Journal of Community Music 1.4 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
33 International Journal of Education and the Arts 1.4 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
34 Journal of Music, Technology and Education 1.3 81st Q1 ESCI – No
35 Ethnomusicology Forum 1.2 81st Q1 AHCI – No
36 Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 1.2 80th Q1 – – Yes
37 Journal of General Music Education 1.2 80th Q1 – – No
38 Letonica 1.2 79th Q1 – – No
39 Rock Music Studies 1.1 79th Q1 – – No
40 Organised Sound 1.1 78th Q1 AHCI – No
41 Journal of Urban Culture Research 1 78th Q1 ESCI – No
42 Leonardo 1 77th Q1 AHCI – No
43 Philosophy of Music Education Review 1 77th Q1 ESCI – No
44 Music Educators Journal 1 76th Q1 ESCI – No
45 Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference 1 75th Q1 – – No
46 String Research Journal 1 75th Q1 – – No
47 Contemporary Music Review 0.9 74th Q2 AHCI – No
48 Malaysian Journal of Music 0.9 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
49 Journal of Applied Arts and Health 0.9 73rd Q2 – – No
50 Muziki 0.9 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
51 Journal of Popular Music Education 0.9 72nd Q2 – – No
52 Twentieth-Century Music 0.9 72nd Q2 AHCI – No
53 Korean Journal of Research in Music Education 0.9 71st Q2 – – No
54 Resital 0.9 71st Q2 – – Yes
55 Ethnomusicology 0.9 70th Q2 AHCI – No
56 Notes 0.8 70th Q2 AHCI – No
57 Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 0.8 69th Q2 – – No
58 Jurnal Kajian Bali 0.8 69th Q2 – – Yes
59 Metal Music Studies 0.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
60 Music Reference Services Quarterly 0.8 68th Q2 – – No
61 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 0.8 67th Q2 – – Yes
62 Journal of World Popular Music 0.8 67th Q2 ESCI – No
63 Journal of Popular Music Studies 0.8 66th Q2 AHCI – No
64 Music and Medicine 0.8 66th Q2 – – No
65 Journal of the Alamire Foundation 0.8 65th Q2 – – No
66 Revista Electronica Complutense de Investigacion en Educacion Musical 0.8 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
67 Acta Musicologica 0.8 64th Q2 AHCI – No
68 Music Analysis 0.7 64th Q2 AHCI – No
69 Journal of Sound and Music in Games 0.7 63rd Q2 – – No
70 Journal of the American Musicological Society 0.7 63rd Q2 AHCI – No
71 Journal of Music Theory 0.7 62nd Q2 AHCI – No
72 Greek and Roman Musical Studies 0.7 61st Q2 – – No
73 Musica Hodie 0.7 61st Q2 AHCI – Yes
74 Dancecult 0.7 60th Q2 – – Yes
75 Journal of Musicological Research 0.6 60th Q2 AHCI – No
76 Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 0.6 59th Q2 ESCI – No
77 Nineteenth-Century Music Review 0.6 59th Q2 AHCI – No
78 Hudebni Veda 0.6 58th Q2 AHCI – No
79 Jazz Education in Research and Practice 0.6 58th Q2 – – No
80 IASPM Journal 0.6 57th Q2 – – Yes
81 Music and Letters 0.6 57th Q2 AHCI – No
82 Journal of the Society for American Music 0.6 56th Q2 AHCI – No
83 Musicology Australia 0.5 56th Q2 ESCI – No
84 Journal of the Royal Musical Association 0.5 55th Q2 AHCI – No
85 Music, Sound and the Moving Image 0.5 55th Q2 ESCI – No
86 International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 0.5 54th Q2 AHCI – No
87 Rast Muzikoloji Dergisi 0.5 54th Q2 – – No
88 World of Music 0.5 53rd Q2 AHCI – No
89 Yearbook for Traditional Music 0.5 53rd Q2 – – No
90 Contemporary Musicology 0.5 52nd Q2 – – Yes
91 Nineteenth Century Music 0.5 52nd Q2 AHCI – No
92 Pop Music, Culture, and Identity 0.5 51st Q2 – – No
93 Revista de Poetica Medieval 0.5 51st Q2 – – Yes
94 Asian-European Music Research Journal 0.5 50th Q2 – – Yes
95 Journal of Musicology 0.5 50th Q2 AHCI – No
96 Art Inquiry 0.4 49th Q3 – – Yes
97 Wacana Seni 0.4 49th Q3 ESCI – No
98 Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Visuales y Artes Escenicas 0.4 48th Q3 ESCI – No
99 Per Musi 0.4 48th Q3 – – Yes
100 Plainsong and Medieval Music 0.4 47th Q3 AHCI – No
101 Punk and Post-Punk 0.4 47th Q3 ESCI – No
102 Early American Studies 0.4 46th Q3 ESCI – No
103 Folklorica 0.4 46th Q3 – – Yes
104 In Monte Artium 0.4 45th Q3 – – No
105 Musicologist 0.4 45th Q3 ESCI – No
106 Dix-Neuf 0.4 44th Q3 AHCI – No
107 Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa 0.3 44th Q3 AHCI – No
108 Horror Studies 0.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
109 Muzikoloski Zbornik 0.3 43rd Q3 AHCI – Yes
110 Musical Art and Education 0.3 42nd Q3 – – Yes
111 Musica Tecnologia 0.3 41st Q3 ESCI – No
112 Muzyka 0.3 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
113 Popular Music History 0.3 41st Q3 – – No
114 American Imago 0.3 40th Q3 AHCI – No
115 Resonancias 0.3 40th Q3 AHCI – Yes
116 Fontes Artis Musicae 0.3 39th Q3 AHCI – No
117 Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music 0.3 39th Q3 – – No
118 Rangsit Music Journal 0.3 38th Q3 – – No
119 Studies in Musical Theatre 0.3 38th Q3 ESCI – No
120 Musical Quarterly 0.3 37th Q3 AHCI – No
121 Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery 0.3 36th Q3 – – No
122 Res Musica 0.3 36th Q3 – – No
123 Revista Musical Chilena 0.3 36th Q3 AHCI – Yes
124 Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 0.3 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
125 Muzikologija 0.3 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
126 Oido Pensante 0.3 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
127 Journal of Folklore Research 0.3 33rd Q3 AHCI – No
128 Tempo (United Kingdom) 0.3 33rd Q3 AHCI – No
129 American Music 0.3 32nd Q3 AHCI – No
130 Cambridge Opera Journal 0.3 32nd Q3 AHCI – No
131 Co-herencia 0.3 31st Q3 AHCI – Yes
132 Modernism - Modernity 0.3 31st Q3 AHCI – No
133 College Music Symposium 0.3 30th Q3 – – No
134 Ecumenica 0.3 30th Q3 ESCI – No
135 Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana 0.2 29th Q3 – – Yes
136 Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music 0.2 29th Q3 – – No
137 October 0.2 28th Q3 AHCI – No
138 Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Iskusstvovedenie 0.2 28th Q3 ESCI – No
139 Choral Journal 0.2 27th Q3 – – No
140 Colloquia 0.2 26th Q3 – – No
141 Early Music 0.2 26th Q3 AHCI – No
142 Jazz Research Journal 0.2 25th Q3 ESCI – No
143 Modernist Cultures 0.2 25th Q3 AHCI – No
144 Arti Musices 0.2 24th Q4 AHCI – Yes
145 De Musica Disserenda 0.2 24th Q4 – – Yes
146 Nauchnyy Vestnik Moskovskoy Konservatorii 0.2 23rd Q4 – – No
147 Slovenske Divadlo 0.2 23rd Q4 – – Yes
148 Dante e l'Arte 0.2 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
149 Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture 0.2 22nd Q4 – – No
150 Anuario Musical 0.2 21st Q4 AHCI – Yes
151 Revista de Musicologia 0.2 21st Q4 ESCI – No
152 Music Theory And Analysis 0.2 20th Q4 – – No
153 Materia 0.2 19th Q4 – – Yes
154 Musicologica Brunensia 0.2 19th Q4 ESCI – Yes
155 Studia Musicologica 0.2 19th Q4 AHCI – No
156 ESPES 0.2 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
157 Online Journal of Music Sciences 0.2 18th Q4 – – Yes
158 Philomusica 0.1 17th Q4 ESCI – No
159 Word and Music Studies 0.1 17th Q4 – – No
160 I Tatti Studies 0.1 16th Q4 ESCI – No
161 Yazyki i Fol'klor Korennykh Narodov Sibiri 0.1 16th Q4 – – No
162 Diacritica 0.1 15th Q4 – – Yes
163 Renaissance and Reformation 0.1 15th Q4 AHCI – No
164 Archivo de Arte Valenciano 0.1 14th Q4 – – No
165 Explorations in Renaissance Culture 0.1 14th Q4 ESCI – No
166 Bach 0.1 13th Q4 AHCI – No
167 PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art 0.1 13th Q4 – – No
168 Cahiers d'Ethnomusicologie 0.1 12th Q4 – – No
169 Opera Quarterly 0.1 11th Q4 AHCI – No
170 Opus 0.1 11th Q4 ESCI – Yes
171 Belarusian Folklore: Data and Research 0.1 10th Q4 – – No
172 Osmanli Mirasi Arastirmalari Dergisi 0.1 10th Q4 – – No
173 Eighteenth-Century Music 0.1 9th Q4 AHCI – No
174 Lietuvos Muzikologija 0.1 9th Q4 – – No
175 Perspectives of New Music 0.1 8th Q4 – – No
176 Revue de Musicologie 0.1 8th Q4 AHCI – No
177 Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft 0.1 7th Q4 AHCI – No
178 Itamar 0.1 7th Q4 – – No
179 Journal of Band Research 0.1 6th Q4 AHCI – No
180 Russian Musicology 0.1 6th Q4 ESCI – Yes
181 Diagonal 0.1 5th Q4 – – Yes
182 Mahidol Music Journal 0.1 5th Q4 – – No
183 Journal of Music Research 0 4th Q4 – – No
184 Lied und Populare Kultur 0 4th Q4 AHCI – No
185 Du: Zeitschrift Der Kultur 0 3rd Q4 AHCI – No
186 Musikforschung 0 3rd Q4 AHCI – No
187 Avant Scene Opera 0 1st Q4 – – No
188 Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 0 1st Q4 – – No
189 Music in Art 0 1st Q4 – – No
190 Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature 0 1st Q4 – – No
191 Perfect Beat 0 1st Q4 ESCI – No
192 Voices - Journal of New York Folklore 0 1st Q4 AHCI – No

Rank and percentile are within the Music 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.

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