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Best Music journals

192 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Music. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 46 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 Musicae Scientiae 5.7 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
2 Psychology of Music 5.3 99th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
3 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
4 Research Studies in Music Education 4.9 98th Q1 ESCI – No
5 International Journal of Music Education 4 97th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
6 AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 3.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Research in Music Education 3.8 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
8 Acta Acustica 2.9 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Music Perception 2.9 95th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
10 Music and Science 2.7 95th Q1 – – Yes
11 JASA Express Letters 2.6 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
12 Journal of Music Therapy 2.5 94th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Music Education Research 2.5 93th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
14 Update: Applications of Research in Music Education 2.5 93th Q1 – – No
15 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2.3 92th Q1 AHCI – No
16 Computer Music Journal 2.2 92th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
17 Music Theory Spectrum 2.2 91th Q1 AHCI – No
18 Popular Music and Society 2.2 91th Q1 AHCI – No
19 Journal of Music Teacher Education 2 89th Q1 ESCI – No
20 Traditiones 2 89th Q1 – – Yes
21 British Journal of Music Education 2 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
22 Tejuelo. Didactica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educacion 1.9 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 Journal of New Music Research 1.8 87th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
24 Journal of Creative Music Systems 1.8 86th Q1 – – Yes
25 Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 1.7 86th Q1 AHCI – No
26 Popular Music 1.7 85th Q1 AHCI – No
27 Journal of African Cultural Studies 1.6 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
28 Music Therapy Perspectives 1.6 84th Q1 ESCI – No
29 Journal of Mathematics and Music 1.5 84th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
30 Music Theory Online 1.5 83th Q1 AHCI – Yes
31 Voice and Speech Review 1.4 83th Q1 ESCI – No
32 International Journal of Community Music 1.4 82th Q1 AHCI – No
33 International Journal of Education and the Arts 1.4 82th Q1 ESCI – Yes
34 Journal of Music, Technology and Education 1.3 81th Q1 ESCI – No
35 Ethnomusicology Forum 1.2 81th Q1 AHCI – No
36 Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 1.2 80th Q1 – – Yes
37 Journal of General Music Education 1.2 80th Q1 – – No
38 Letonica 1.2 79th Q1 – – No
39 Rock Music Studies 1.1 79th Q1 – – No
40 Organised Sound 1.1 78th Q1 AHCI – No
41 Journal of Urban Culture Research 1 78th Q1 ESCI – No
42 Leonardo 1 77th Q1 AHCI – No
43 Philosophy of Music Education Review 1 77th Q1 ESCI – No
44 Music Educators Journal 1 76th Q1 ESCI – No
45 Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference 1 75th Q1 – – No
46 String Research Journal 1 75th Q1 – – No
47 Contemporary Music Review 0.9 74th Q2 AHCI – No
48 Malaysian Journal of Music 0.9 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
49 Journal of Applied Arts and Health 0.9 73th Q2 – – No
50 Muziki 0.9 73th Q2 ESCI – No
51 Journal of Popular Music Education 0.9 72th Q2 – – No
52 Twentieth-Century Music 0.9 72th Q2 AHCI – No
53 Korean Journal of Research in Music Education 0.9 71th Q2 – – No
54 Resital 0.9 71th Q2 – – Yes
55 Ethnomusicology 0.9 70th Q2 AHCI – No
56 Notes 0.8 70th Q2 AHCI – No
57 Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 0.8 69th Q2 – – No
58 Jurnal Kajian Bali 0.8 69th Q2 – – Yes
59 Metal Music Studies 0.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
60 Music Reference Services Quarterly 0.8 68th Q2 – – No
61 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 0.8 67th Q2 – – Yes
62 Journal of World Popular Music 0.8 67th Q2 ESCI – No
63 Journal of Popular Music Studies 0.8 66th Q2 AHCI – No
64 Music and Medicine 0.8 66th Q2 – – No
65 Journal of the Alamire Foundation 0.8 65th Q2 – – No
66 Revista Electronica Complutense de Investigacion en Educacion Musical 0.8 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
67 Acta Musicologica 0.8 64th Q2 AHCI – No
68 Music Analysis 0.7 64th Q2 AHCI – No
69 Journal of Sound and Music in Games 0.7 63th Q2 – – No
70 Journal of the American Musicological Society 0.7 63th Q2 AHCI – No
71 Journal of Music Theory 0.7 62th Q2 AHCI – No
72 Greek and Roman Musical Studies 0.7 61th Q2 – – No
73 Musica Hodie 0.7 61th Q2 AHCI – Yes
74 Dancecult 0.7 60th Q2 – – Yes
75 Journal of Musicological Research 0.6 60th Q2 AHCI – No
76 Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 0.6 59th Q2 ESCI – No
77 Nineteenth-Century Music Review 0.6 59th Q2 AHCI – No
78 Hudebni Veda 0.6 58th Q2 AHCI – No
79 Jazz Education in Research and Practice 0.6 58th Q2 – – No
80 IASPM Journal 0.6 57th Q2 – – Yes
81 Music and Letters 0.6 57th Q2 AHCI – No
82 Journal of the Society for American Music 0.6 56th Q2 AHCI – No
83 Musicology Australia 0.5 56th Q2 ESCI – No
84 Journal of the Royal Musical Association 0.5 55th Q2 AHCI – No
85 Music, Sound and the Moving Image 0.5 55th Q2 ESCI – No
86 International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 0.5 54th Q2 AHCI – No
87 Rast Muzikoloji Dergisi 0.5 54th Q2 – – No
88 World of Music 0.5 53th Q2 AHCI – No
89 Yearbook for Traditional Music 0.5 53th Q2 – – No
90 Contemporary Musicology 0.5 52th Q2 – – Yes
91 Nineteenth Century Music 0.5 52th Q2 AHCI – No
92 Pop Music, Culture, and Identity 0.5 51th Q2 – – No
93 Revista de Poetica Medieval 0.5 51th Q2 – – Yes
94 Asian-European Music Research Journal 0.5 50th Q2 – – Yes
95 Journal of Musicology 0.5 50th Q2 AHCI – No
96 Art Inquiry 0.4 49th Q3 – – Yes
97 Wacana Seni 0.4 49th Q3 ESCI – No
98 Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Visuales y Artes Escenicas 0.4 48th Q3 ESCI – No
99 Per Musi 0.4 48th Q3 – – Yes
100 Plainsong and Medieval Music 0.4 47th Q3 AHCI – No

Rank and percentile are within the Music 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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