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Update: Applications of Research in Music Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1945-0109Verify ISSN ↗8755-1233Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 13 / 196 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Education | 755 / 1698 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education is Q1 in Music (rank 13 of 196) and Q2 in Education (rank 755 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education 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 2.5, quartile Q1, 93rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.810, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1945-0109 and its online ISSN is 8755-1233.
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.
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.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Update: Applications of Research in Music Education published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 38. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (90.6%), Canada (2.1%) and Spain (1.6%). 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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