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Best Museology journals

95 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Museology. The top 95 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 24 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
2 International Journal of Heritage Studies 4.7 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
3 Museum Management and Curatorship 4.3 97th Q1 AHCI – No
4 American Antiquity 3.7 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
5 Visitor Studies 3.4 95th Q1 ESCI A No
6 Collection and Curation 2.9 94th Q1 ESCI – No
7 American Museum Novitates 2.3 93th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Muzeologia a Kulturne Dedicstvo 2 92th Q1 ESCI – Yes
9 Records of the Australian Museum 1.9 91th Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 International Journal of Cultural Property 1.9 90th Q1 ESCI – No
11 Curator 1.8 89th Q1 AHCI – No
12 Museum Anthropology 1.6 88th Q1 ESCI – No
13 Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 1.6 86th Q1 AHCI – No
14 Journal of Museum Education 1.6 85th Q1 ESCI – No
15 Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 1.5 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 History of Science and Technology 1.5 83th Q1 ESCI – Yes
17 International Journal of Intangible Heritage 1.3 82th Q1 AHCI – No
18 Ukrainian Numismatic Annual 1.2 81th Q1 – – Yes
19 Museum and Society 1.1 80th Q1 – – Yes
20 Studies in Digital Heritage 1.1 79th Q1 – – Yes
21 Magazen 1 78th Q1 – – Yes
22 Museum Worlds 1 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 0.9 76th Q1 ESCI – No
24 Boletin de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras 0.9 75th Q1 – – No
25 Museums and Social Issues 0.8 73th Q2 ESCI – No
26 Visual Resources 0.8 72th Q2 ESCI – No
27 Museologica Brunensia 0.8 71th Q2 – – Yes
28 Conservar Patrimonio 0.7 70th Q2 ESCI – Yes
29 Revista del Museo de Antropologia 0.7 69th Q2 – – Yes
30 Museum International 0.7 68th Q2 AHCI – No
31 IS and T Archiving Conference, ARCHIVING 0.6 67th Q2 – – No
32 Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage 0.6 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
33 American Historical Review 0.6 65th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
34 Studia Universitatis Hereditati 0.6 64th Q2 – – Yes
35 Ge-Conservacion 0.6 63th Q2 ESCI – Yes
36 Boletin Cientifico del Centro de Museos 0.5 61th Q2 – – No
37 Slavia Antiqua 0.5 60th Q2 – – Yes
38 Journal of the History of Collections 0.5 59th Q2 AHCI – No
39 Revista de Arqueologia 0.5 58th Q2 – – Yes
40 Asian-European Music Research Journal 0.5 57th Q2 – – Yes
41 AICCM Bulletin 0.5 56th Q2 – – No
42 Shedet 0.4 55th Q2 – – Yes
43 Public Historian 0.4 54th Q2 AHCI – No
44 Annals of the Naprstek Museum 0.4 53th Q2 – – No
45 Diferents 0.4 52th Q2 – – Yes
46 Metropolitan Museum Journal 0.4 51th Q2 AHCI – No
47 Raport Archeologiczny 0.3 50th Q2 – – No
48 Glasnik SED 0.3 49th Q3 – – No
49 South African Museums Association Bulletin 0.3 48th Q3 ESCI – No
50 ICOFOM Study Series 0.3 47th Q3 – – No
51 Biuletyn Uniejowski 0.3 46th Q3 – – Yes
52 Laboratorio de Arte 0.3 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
53 Boletin del Museo del Prado 0.3 44th Q3 – – Yes
54 Getty Research Journal 0.3 43th Q3 AHCI – Yes
55 Capitale Culturale 0.3 42th Q3 ESCI – Yes
56 Journal of Curatorial Studies 0.3 41th Q3 ESCI – No
57 Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists 0.3 40th Q3 – – Yes
58 Anais do Museu Paulista 0.3 39th Q3 – – Yes
59 Museum History Journal 0.3 38th Q3 ESCI – No
60 Senjski Zbornik 0.3 36th Q3 – – Yes
61 Vojenska Historia 0.2 35th Q3 – – No
62 Kunstkamera 0.2 34th Q3 – – No
63 Studia Historica Nitriensia 0.2 33th Q3 – – Yes
64 Cadernos de Sociomuseologia 0.2 32th Q3 – – Yes
65 Art History and Criticism 0.2 31th Q3 – – Yes
66 MIDAS 0.2 30th Q3 – – Yes
67 Brukenthal. Acta Musei 0.2 29th Q3 – – No
68 Quiroga 0.2 28th Q3 ESCI – No
69 Muzealnictwo 0.2 27th Q3 – – No
70 Culture et Musees 0.2 26th Q3 AHCI – Yes
71 Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 0.2 25th Q3 – – Yes
72 Notes Konserwatorski 0.2 24th Q4 – – No
73 Ad Limina 0.1 23th Q4 – – Yes
74 Intrecci d'Arte 0.1 21th Q4 ESCI – Yes
75 Pamietnik Biblioteki Kornickiej 0.1 21th Q4 – – No
76 International Journal on Stereo and Immersive Media 0.1 20th Q4 – – No
77 Terra Sebus 0.1 19th Q4 – – Yes
78 Acta Musei Napocensis. Historica 0.1 18th Q4 – – No
79 Polish Libraries 0.1 17th Q4 – – No
80 Ademas de 0.1 15th Q4 – – Yes
81 Archivo de Arte Valenciano 0.1 15th Q4 – – No
82 Ars Adriatica 0.1 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
83 Istrazivanja Journal of Historical Researches 0.1 13th Q4 – – Yes
84 Periferica Internacional 0.1 11th Q4 – – Yes
85 Disclosing Collections 0.1 10th Q4 – – No
86 Winterthur Portfolio 0.1 10th Q4 AHCI – No
87 Museum 0.1 8th Q4 – – No
88 Etnolog 0.1 7th Q4 – – Yes
89 Przeglad Zachodniopomorski 0.1 6th Q4 – – Yes
90 Zivot Umjetnosti 0.1 6th Q4 AHCI – No
91 Archives of American Art Journal 0.1 4th Q4 AHCI – No
92 Revue des Musees de France 0 3th Q4 AHCI – No
93 Histories of Postwar Architecture 0 2th Q4 – – Yes
94 Monumenta Graeca et Romana 0 1th Q4 – – No
95 Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, Nowa Seria 0 1th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Museology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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