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Music Perception is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 0730-7829Verify ISSN ↗1533-8312Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 9 / 196 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1983–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Music Perception is Q1 in Music (rank 9 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Music Perception is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.570, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
Music Perception is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 0730-7829 and its online ISSN is 1533-8312.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Music Perception has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Music Perception published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 40. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.7%), United Kingdom (9.8%) and Canada (9.3%).
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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