This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Music journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Musicology | Gnesins Russian Academy of Music | 30343836 | 1.76 |
| 2 | Journal of Research in Music Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00224294, 19450095 | 1.403 |
| 3 | Research Studies in Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1321103X, 18345530 | 1.169 |
| 4 | Musicae Scientiae | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10298649, 20454147 | 0.945 |
| 5 | Psychology of Music | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17413087, 03057356 | 0.912 |
| 6 | Update: Applications of Research in Music Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 19450109, 87551233 | 0.81 |
| 7 | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | Oxford University Press | 15406245, 00218529 | 0.709 |
| 8 | International Journal of Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1744795X, 02557614 | 0.687 |
| 9 | Music Education Research | Routledge | 14699893, 14613808 | 0.66 |
| 10 | Music Perception | University of California Press | 15338312, 07307829 | 0.57 |
| 11 | Music and Science | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20592043 | 0.564 |
| 12 | Popular Music and Society | Routledge | 03007766, 17401712 | 0.56 |
| 13 | Journal of Music Teacher Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 19450079, 10570837 | 0.548 |
| 14 | Journal of Music Therapy | American Music Therapy Association | 20537395, 00222917 | 0.524 |
| 15 | British Journal of Music Education | Cambridge University Press | 02650517, 14692104 | 0.5 |
| 16 | Music Theory Spectrum | Oxford University Press | 01956167, 15338339 | 0.493 |
| 17 | Contemporary Musicology | Gnesins Russian Academy of Music | 25879731 | 0.49 |
| 18 | Tejuelo. Didactica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educacion | Universidad de Extremadura | 19888430 | 0.474 |
| 19 | Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 21627223, 00109894 | 0.469 |
| 20 | Music Theory Online | Society for Music Theory | 10673040 | 0.46 |
| 21 | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval | Ubiquity Press | 25143298 | 0.46 |
| 22 | Traditiones | Zalozba ZRC | 18556396, 03520447 | 0.445 |
| 23 | AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society | Audio Engineering Society | 15494950 | 0.431 |
| 24 | Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx | 24136700, 24136689 | 0.431 | |
| 25 | JASA Express Letters | American Institute of Physics | 26911191 | 0.428 |
| 26 | Philosophy of Music Education Review | Indiana University Press | 10635734, 15433412 | 0.403 |
| 27 | Music Educators Journal | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00274321, 19450087 | 0.394 |
| 28 | Journal of General Music Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 27527646 | 0.386 |
| 29 | Music Therapy Perspectives | Oxford University Press | 07346875, 20537387 | 0.36 |
| 30 | Acta Acustica | European Acoustics Association, EAA | 10224793, 26814617 | 0.352 |
| 31 | International Journal of Community Music | Intellect Ltd. | 17526302, 17526299 | 0.339 |
| 32 | Computer Music Journal | MIT Press | 01489267, 15315169 | 0.318 |
| 33 | String Research Journal | SAGE Publications Ltd | 21640661, 19484992 | 0.316 |
| 34 | Voice and Speech Review | Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. | 23268271, 23268263 | 0.314 |
| 35 | International Journal of Education and the Arts | Pennsylvania State University Libraries | 15298094 | 0.308 |
| 36 | Metal Music Studies | Intellect Ltd. | 20523998, 20524005 | 0.271 |
| 37 | Journal of African Cultural Studies | Routledge | 13696815, 14699346 | 0.268 |
| 38 | Journal of Urban Culture Research | Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts | 24081213, 22288279 | 0.266 |
| 39 | Organised Sound | Cambridge University Press | 13557718, 14698153 | 0.265 |
| 40 | Rock Music Studies | Routledge | 19401167, 19401159 | 0.264 |
| 41 | Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression | 22204792, 22204806 | 0.262 | |
| 42 | Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education | Universitas Negeri Semarang | 14115115, 25412426 | 0.259 |
| 43 | Rast Muzikoloji Dergisi | 21477361, 21477531 | 0.252 | |
| 44 | Journal of Popular Music Education | Intellect Ltd. | 23976721, 2397673X | 0.25 |
| 45 | Ethnomusicology Forum | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17411920, 17411912 | 0.248 |
| 46 | Popular Music | Cambridge University Press | 14740095, 02611430 | 0.245 |
| 47 | Journal of Music Theory | Duke University Press | 19417497, 00222909 | 0.241 |
| 48 | Journal of Music, Technology and Education | Intellect Ltd. | 17527074, 17527066 | 0.238 |
| 49 | Malaysian Journal of Music | Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris | 26009366, 26009331 | 0.238 |
| 50 | Journal of New Music Research | Routledge | 17445027, 09298215 | 0.235 |
| 51 | Asian-European Music Research Journal | Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH | 27012689, 2625378X | 0.231 |
| 52 | Journal of Applied Arts and Health | Intellect Ltd. | 20402465, 20402457 | 0.222 |
| 53 | Ethnomusicology | Society for Ethnomusicology | 141836 | 0.219 |
| 54 | Letonica | Latvian University | 14073110 | 0.217 |
| 55 | Twentieth-Century Music | Cambridge University Press | 14785722, 14785730 | 0.217 |
| 56 | Music Analysis | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 14682249, 02625245 | 0.216 |
| 57 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 15331598, 15242226 | 0.212 |
| 58 | Muziki | Routledge | 1753593X, 18125980 | 0.209 |
| 59 | Journal of Mathematics and Music | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17459737, 17459745 | 0.207 |
| 60 | Notes | Music Library Association | 1534150X, 00274380 | 0.206 |
| 61 | Journal of the American Musicological Society | University of California Press | 00030139, 15473848 | 0.202 |
| 62 | Resital | 20859910, 23386770 | 0.199 | |
| 63 | Korean Journal of Research in Music Education | Korean Music Education Society | 12294179, 27133788 | 0.199 |
| 64 | Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Iskusstvovedenie | Saint Petersburg State University | 25422243, 22213007 | 0.196 |
| 65 | Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences | 25183672 | 0.194 | |
| 66 | Slovenske Divadlo | Slovak Academy of Sciences | 0037699X, 13368605 | 0.193 |
| 67 | Music and Medicine | International Association for Music and Medicine | 1943863X, 19438621 | 0.193 |
| 68 | Musica Tecnologia | Firenze University Press | 19740042, 19740050 | 0.179 |
| 69 | Art Inquiry | Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe | 24510327, 16419278 | 0.178 |
| 70 | Revista Electronica Complutense de Investigacion en Educacion Musical | Universidad Complutense Madrid | 16987454 | 0.178 |
| 71 | IASPM Journal | International Association for the Study of Popular Music | 20793871 | 0.175 |
| 72 | Journal of Popular Romance Studies | International Association for the Study of Popular Romance | 21594473 | 0.171 |
| 73 | Musica Hodie | Universidade Federal de Goias | 16763939 | 0.171 |
| 74 | Muzyka | Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences | 00275344, 27207021 | 0.168 |
| 75 | Oido Pensante | CAICYT-CONICET | 22507116 | 0.168 |
| 76 | Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music | Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS | 19988745, 25880144 | 0.167 |
| 77 | Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa | Routledge | 2070626X, 18121004 | 0.166 |
| 78 | Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference | 30063094 | 0.166 | |
| 79 | Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press | 25783432 | 0.165 |
| 80 | Opus | National Association of Music Research and Postgraduates | 15177017, 01037412 | 0.163 |
| 81 | Jurnal Kajian Bali | Udayana University | 25800698, 20884443 | 0.162 |
| 82 | Music Theory And Analysis | Leuven University Press | 22955917, 22955925 | 0.161 |
| 83 | Fontes Artis Musicae | Music Library Association | 156191 | 0.16 |
| 84 | Leonardo | MIT Press | 0024094X | 0.16 |
| 85 | Acta Musicologica | International Musicological Society | 16241 | 0.157 |
| 86 | Acta Ethnographica Hungarica | Akademiai Kiado | 15882586, 12169803 | 0.152 |
| 87 | College Music Symposium | 00695696, 2334203X | 0.152 | |
| 88 | Musicologist | Trabzon University State Conservatory | 26185652 | 0.152 |
| 89 | Explorations in Renaissance Culture | Brill Academic Publishers | 00982474, 23526963 | 0.148 |
| 90 | Musicologica Brunensia | Masaryk University | 2336436X, 12120391 | 0.148 |
| 91 | International Computer Music Conference, ICMC Proceedings | 22233881 | 0.147 | |
| 92 | Nauchnyy Vestnik Moskovskoy Konservatorii | Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory | 27131807, 20799438 | 0.145 |
| 93 | Journal of Musicology | University of California Press | 15338347, 02779269 | 0.144 |
| 94 | Punk and Post-Punk | Intellect Ltd. | 20443706, 20441983 | 0.144 |
| 95 | Res Musica | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonian Musicological Society | 23828080, 17368553 | 0.144 |
| 96 | Journal of Creative Music Systems | University of Huddersfield Press | 23997656 | 0.143 |
| 97 | Hudebni Veda | Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | 00187003, 26946998 | 0.142 |
| 98 | Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery | Association for Music and Imagery | 10988009 | 0.141 |
| 99 | Greek and Roman Musical Studies | Brill Academic Publishers | 22129758, 2212974X | 0.139 |
| 100 | Musical Quarterly | Oxford University Press | 17418399, 00274631 | 0.139 |
| 101 | American Imago | Johns Hopkins University Press | 10857931, 0065860X | 0.138 |
| 102 | Journal of Historical Research in Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15366006, 23282525 | 0.134 |
| 103 | Journal of Musicological Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1411896 | 0.134 |
| 104 | Per Musi | Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais | 15177599, 23176377 | 0.134 |
| 105 | Music, Sound and the Moving Image | Liverpool University Press | 17530776, 17530768 | 0.133 |
| 106 | Word and Music Studies | Brill: Rodopi | 15660958 | 0.133 |
| 107 | Arti Musices | Hrvatsko Muzikolosko Drustvo | 05875455, 18489303 | 0.133 |
| 108 | October | MIT Press | 1536013X, 01622870 | 0.132 |
| 109 | Online Journal of Music Sciences | 25364421 | 0.132 | |
| 110 | Muzikoloski Zbornik | University of Ljubljana Press | 23504242, 0580373X | 0.131 |
| 111 | ESPES | University of Presov Faculty of Arts | 13391119 | 0.128 |
| 112 | Modernism - Modernity | Johns Hopkins University Press | 10806601, 10716068 | 0.128 |
| 113 | Choral Journal | American Choral Directors Association | 00095028, 21632170 | 0.127 |
| 114 | Journal of the Society for American Music | Cambridge University Press | 17521971, 17521963 | 0.127 |
| 115 | International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music | Hrvatsko Muzikolosko Drustvo | 3515796 | 0.126 |
| 116 | Music and Letters | Oxford University Press | 14774631, 00274224 | 0.126 |
| 117 | Music Reference Services Quarterly | Routledge | 10588167, 15409503 | 0.126 |
| 118 | De Musica Disserenda | Zalozba ZRC | 25362615, 18543405 | 0.125 |
| 119 | Revista de Poetica Medieval | Alcala University | 2660891X, 11378905 | 0.124 |
| 120 | Musical Art and Education | Moscow Pedagogical State University | 23091428 | 0.124 |
| 121 | Cambridge Opera Journal | Cambridge University Press | 14740621, 09545867 | 0.123 |
| 122 | Dix-Neuf | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14787318 | 0.123 |
| 123 | Ecumenica | Penn State University Press | 19424558, 25782185 | 0.123 |
| 124 | Dancecult | University of Huddersfield | 19475403 | 0.122 |
| 125 | American Music | University of Illinois Press | 7344392 | 0.122 |
| 126 | Yazyki i Fol'klor Korennykh Narodov Sibiri | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philology | 23126337, 27129608 | 0.121 |
| 127 | Yearbook for Traditional Music | Cambridge University Press | 23043857, 07401558 | 0.121 |
| 128 | Co-herencia | Universidad EAFIT | 17945887 | 0.12 |
| 129 | Muzikologija | Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) | 24060976, 14509814 | 0.12 |
| 130 | Early Music | Oxford University Press | 17417260, 03061078 | 0.119 |
| 131 | Nineteenth Century Music | University of California Press | 01482076, 15338606 | 0.119 |
| 132 | Contemporary Music Review | Routledge | 07494467, 14772256 | 0.118 |
| 133 | Early American Studies | University of Pennsylvania Press | 15434273, 15590895 | 0.117 |
| 134 | Journal of Folklore Research | Indiana University Press | 15430413, 07377037 | 0.116 |
| 135 | Musicology Australia | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1949453X, 08145857 | 0.115 |
| 136 | Opera Quarterly | Oxford University Press | 14762870, 07360053 | 0.115 |
| 137 | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge University Press | 14794098, 20448414 | 0.114 |
| 138 | Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Visuales y Artes Escenicas | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | 17946670, 22159959 | 0.113 |
| 139 | Journal of Band Research | Troy State University Press | 219207 | 0.113 |
| 140 | Studies in Musical Theatre | Intellect Ltd. | 17503159, 17503167 | 0.112 |
| 141 | Itamar | Universitat de Valencia | 23868260 | 0.111 |
| 142 | Lietuvos Muzikologija | Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre | 13929313 | 0.111 |
| 143 | Journal of World Popular Music | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 20524919, 20524900 | 0.109 |
| 144 | Wacana Seni | Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia | 16753410, 21804311 | 0.109 |
| 145 | Tempo (United Kingdom) | Cambridge University Press | 00402982, 14782286 | 0.108 |
| 146 | Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts | Universidade Catolica Portuguesa | 16469798, 21830088 | 0.107 |
| 147 | Renaissance and Reformation | Iter | 0034429X, 22937374 | 0.107 |
| 148 | Jazz Research Journal | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 17538645, 17538637 | 0.107 |
| 149 | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge University Press | 14716933, 02690403 | 0.107 |
| 150 | Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society | American Musical Instrument Society | 3623300 | 0.106 |
| 151 | Resonancias | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 07195702, 07173474 | 0.106 |
| 152 | Modernist Cultures | Edinburgh University Press | 20411022, 17538629 | 0.105 |
| 153 | World of Music | VWB - Verlag f������r Wissenschaft und Bildung | 438774 | 0.105 |
| 154 | Diacritica | Universidade do Minho | 08708967, 21839174 | 0.104 |
| 155 | Folklorica | Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies | 19200234, 19200242 | 0.104 |
| 156 | In Monte Artium | OpenEditions Journals | 20313098, 25070312 | 0.104 |
| 157 | Materia | Departament d'Historia de l'Art. Universitat de Barcelona | 15792641, 23853387 | 0.104 |
| 158 | Perfect Beat | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 18360343, 10382909 | 0.104 |
| 159 | Belarusian Folklore: Data and Research | Belaruskaya Navuka | 24112763, 27903559 | 0.103 |
| 160 | Horror Studies | Intellect Ltd. | 20403283, 20403275 | 0.102 |
| 161 | Archivo de Arte Valenciano | Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos | 2115808 | 0.102 |
| 162 | Journal of Music Research | National Taiwan Normal University-College of Music | 20798857 | 0.102 |
| 163 | Music in Art | City University of New York | 15227464, 21699488 | 0.102 |
| 164 | PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art | MIT Press | 15379477, 1520281X | 0.102 |
| 165 | Plainsong and Medieval Music | Cambridge University Press | 14740087, 09611371 | 0.102 |
| 166 | Popular Music History | Equinox Publishing Ltd | 17407133, 17431646 | 0.102 |
| 167 | Anuario Musical | CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas | 02113538, 19884125 | 0.101 |
| 168 | Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft | Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH | 00039292, 23662794 | 0.101 |
| 169 | Bach | Riemenschneider Bach Institute | 53600 | 0.101 |
| 170 | Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana | Universidad Complutense Madrid | 25309900, 11365536 | 0.101 |
| 171 | Dante e l'Arte | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | 23855355, 23857269 | 0.101 |
| 172 | Diagonal | eScholarship Publishing | 24704199 | 0.101 |
| 173 | I Tatti Studies | University of Chicago Press | 03935949, 20376731 | 0.101 |
| 174 | Jazz Education in Research and Practice | Indiana University Press | 26397668, 26397676 | 0.101 |
| 175 | Journal of the Alamire Foundation | Brepols Publishers | 25070320, 20325371 | 0.101 |
| 176 | Lied und Populare Kultur | Waxmann Verlag GmbH | 16190548 | 0.101 |
| 177 | Perspectives of New Music | Perspectives of New Music | 316016 | 0.101 |
| 178 | Philomusica | Pavia University Press | 18269001 | 0.101 |
| 179 | Revista de Musicologia | Sociedad Espanola de Musicologia | 2101459 | 0.101 |
| 180 | Studia Musicologica | Akademiai Kiado ZRt. | 17892422, 17886244 | 0.101 |
| 181 | Voices - Journal of New York Folklore | New York Folklore Society | 0361204X | 0.101 |
| 182 | Avant Scene Opera | Editions Premieres Loges | 7642873 | 0.1 |
| 183 | Cahiers d'Ethnomusicologie | Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie | 1662372X | 0.1 |
| 184 | Colloquia | Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore | 18223737 | 0.1 |
| 185 | Du: Zeitschrift Der Kultur | Verlag Niggli AG | 126837 | 0.1 |
| 186 | Eighteenth-Century Music | Cambridge University Press | 14785714, 14785706 | 0.1 |
| 187 | Mahidol Music Journal | Mahidol University College of Music | 2774132X | 0.1 |
| 188 | Musikforschung | Baerenreiter Verlag | 274801 | 0.1 |
| 189 | Osmanli Mirasi Arastirmalari Dergisi | 21485704 | 0.1 | |
| 190 | Rangsit Music Journal | Rangsit University | 30277094 | 0.1 |
| 191 | Revista Musical Chilena | Universidad de Chile | 07176252, 07162790 | 0.1 |
| 192 | Revue de Musicologie | Societe Francaise de Musicologie | 19585632, 00351601 | 0.1 |
| 193 | Empirical Studies of the Arts | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15414493, 02762374 | |
| 194 | Jazz Perspectives | Routledge | 17494060, 17494079 | |
| 195 | Yegah Musicology Journal | Tolga Karaca | 27920178 | |
| 196 | Opera | Opera magazine | 303526 | |
| 197 | Clavier Companion | The Instrumentalist Co. | 10860819 | |
| 198 | Early Music History | Cambridge University Press | 02611279, 14740559 | |
| 199 | Musik und Kirche | Baerenreiter Verlag | 274771 | |
| 200 | Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik | Schott Music GmbH &Co | 9456945 | |
| 201 | Revista Electronica de LEEME (discontinued) | Societat de Filosofia del Pais Valencia | 15759563 |