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Music Therapy Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0734-6875Verify ISSN ↗2053-7387Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,737 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 30 / 196 | 84th | Q1 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 74 / 115 | 36th | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 189 / 258 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1992–1995, 1990, 1986–1987, 1983–1984), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Music Therapy Perspectives is Q1 in Music (rank 30 of 196), Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 74 of 115) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 189 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Music Therapy Perspectives 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.360, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,737 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Music Therapy Perspectives is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0734-6875 and its online ISSN is 2053-7387.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Music Therapy Perspectives has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Music Therapy Perspectives published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 36. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.5%), Australia (6.4%) and Ireland (2.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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