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Musical Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0027-4631Verify ISSN ↗1741-8399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,605 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 123 / 196 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025 (also 2004–2007, 1989–2002, 1915–1986), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Musical Quarterly is Q3 in Music (rank 123 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Musical Quarterly is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.139, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,605 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.
Musical Quarterly is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0027-4631 and its online ISSN is 1741-8399.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Musical Quarterly has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Musical Quarterly published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 27. 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.
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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