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Notes is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Music Library Association.
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ISSN 0027-4380Verify ISSN ↗1534-150XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Music Library Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 59 / 196 | 70th | Q2 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 190 / 296 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Notes is Q2 in Music (rank 59 of 196) and Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 190 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Notes 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.206, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Notes is published by Music Library Association. Its print ISSN is 0027-4380 and its online ISSN is 1534-150X.
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.
Notes has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Notes published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 183. 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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