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Popular Music History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-7133Verify ISSN ↗1743-1646Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 116 / 196 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2019–2023), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Popular Music History is Q3 in Music (rank 116 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Popular Music History is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Popular Music History is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-7133 and its online ISSN is 1743-1646.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Popular Music History has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Popular Music History published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 29. 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 82 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.4%), United States (18.9%) and Australia (11.6%).
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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