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Malaysian Journal of Music is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.
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ISSN 2600-9331Verify ISSN ↗2600-9366Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 50 / 196 | 74th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 434 / 1434 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Malaysian Journal of Music is Q2 in Music (rank 50 of 196) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 434 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Journal of Music is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Malaysian Journal of Music is published by Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Its print ISSN is 2600-9331 and its online ISSN is 2600-9366.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Malaysian Journal of Music has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Malaysian Journal of Music published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 16. 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 59 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (33.9%), Indonesia (20.3%) and Thailand (16.1%).
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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