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Perfect Beat is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS ESCI. Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1038-2909Verify ISSN ↗1836-0343Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 191 / 196 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2024, 2020–2022, 2012–2018, 2007–2008, 1992–2000), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Perfect Beat is Q4 in Music (rank 191 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Perfect Beat 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 1st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Perfect Beat is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1038-2909 and its online ISSN is 1836-0343.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Perfect Beat has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Perfect Beat published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 34. 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 45 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (40%), New Zealand (18.9%) and United Kingdom (8.9%).
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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