Music: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Psychology of Music	13
2	Musicae Scientiae	11
3	Music Education Research	9
4	International Journal of Music Education	8
-	Music Perception	8
6	Journal of Research in Music Education	7
-	Popular Music and Society	7
8	British Journal of Music Education	6
-	Journal of New Music Research	6
10	Medical Problems of Performing Artists	5
-	Music Theory Spectrum	5
-	International Journal of Community Music	5
-	Popular Music	5
14	Musica Hodie	4
-	Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education	4
-	Ethnomusicology Forum	4
-	Journal of Mathematics and Music	4
-	Music Theory Online	4
-	Organised Sound	4
20	Ethnomusicology	3
-	Twentieth-Century Music	3
-	Contemporary Music Review	3
-	Journal of the American Musicological Society	3
24	Computer Music Journal	2
-	Early Music	2
-	Journal of Musicological Research	2
-	Journal of the Royal Musical Association	2
-	Plainsong & Medieval Music	2
-	Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie/Yearbook of Music Psychology	2
-	American Music	2
-	Journal of the Society for American Music	2
-	Music & Letters	2
-	Muzikoloski Zbornik	2
-	Nineteenth-Century Music Review	2
35	Fontes Artis Musicae	1
-	Nineteenth Century Music	1
-	Opera Quarterly	1
-	Revista Musical Chilena	1
-	Anuario Musical	1
-	Eighteenth-Century Music	1
-	Musical Quarterly	1
-	Tempo	1
-	Yearbook for Traditional Music	1