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 | IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 10535888 | 3.939 |
| 2 | Plant Phenomics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 26436515 | 1.341 |
| 3 | Journal of Research in Music Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00224294, 19450095 | 1.171 |
| 4 | Music Education Research | Routledge | 14699893, 14613808 | 0.826 |
| 5 | Research Studies in Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1321103X, 18345530 | 0.809 |
| 6 | Music Perception | University of California Press | 7307829 | 0.766 |
| 7 | British Journal of Music Education | Cambridge University Press | 02650517, 14692104 | 0.741 |
| 8 | Musicae Scientiae | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10298649, 20454147 | 0.7 |
| 9 | Psychology of Music | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17413087, 03057356 | 0.679 |
| 10 | Journal of Music Teacher Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 19450079, 10570837 | 0.649 |
| 11 | International Journal of Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1744795X, 02557614 | 0.601 |
| 12 | Empirical Studies of the Arts | SAGE Publications Inc. | 2762374 | 0.575 |
| 13 | Music and Science | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20592043 | 0.544 |
| 14 | Journal of Music Therapy | American Music Therapy Association, Inc. | 222917 | 0.463 |
| 15 | Revista Electronica Complutense de Investigacion en Educacion Musical | Universidad Complutense Madrid | 16987454 | 0.456 |
| 16 | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval | Web Portal Ubiquity Press | 25143298 | 0.448 |
| 17 | AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society | Audio Engineering Society | 00047554, 15494950 | 0.438 |
| 18 | International Journal of Community Music | Intellect Books | 17526302, 17526299 | 0.396 |
| 19 | Music Therapy Perspectives | Oxford University Press | 07346875, 20537387 | 0.392 |
| 20 | Journal of African Cultural Studies | Routledge | 13696815 | 0.39 |
| 21 | Music Theory Online | Society for Music Theory | 10673040 | 0.381 |
| 22 | Revista Electronica de LEEME | Universitat de Valencia, Faculty of Teaching | 15759563 | 0.378 |
| 23 | Art Inquiry | Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe | 24510327, 16419278 | 0.358 |
| 24 | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | Oxford University Press | 15406245, 00218529 | 0.358 |
| 25 | Music Theory Spectrum | Oxford University Press | 01956167, 15338339 | 0.35 |
| 26 | String Research Journal | SAGE Publications Ltd | 21640661, 19484992 | 0.341 |
| 27 | Journal of New Music Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 9298215 | 0.337 |
| 28 | Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 21627223, 00109894 | 0.327 |
| 29 | Ethnomusicology Forum | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17411920, 17411912 | 0.322 |
| 30 | Ethnomusicology | University of Illinois Press | 141836 | 0.309 |
| 31 | Journal of the American Musicological Society | University of California Press | 00030139, 15473848 | 0.288 |
| 32 | Metal Music Studies | Intellect Ltd. | 20523998, 20524005 | 0.282 |
| 33 | Journal of Mathematics and Music | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17459737, 17459745 | 0.269 |
| 34 | Voice and Speech Review | Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. | 23268271, 23268263 | 0.263 |
| 35 | Organised Sound | Cambridge University Press | 13557718, 14698153 | 0.259 |
| 36 | Journal of Music Theory | Duke University Press | 19417497, 00222909 | 0.255 |
| 37 | International Journal of Education and the Arts | Pennsylvania State University Libraries | 15298094 | 0.224 |
| 38 | Revista de Poetica Medieval | Alcala University | 2660891X, 11378905 | 0.224 |
| 39 | Tejuelo | Universidad de Extremadura | 19888430 | 0.224 |
| 40 | Greek and Roman Musical Studies | Brill Academic Publishers | 22129758, 2212974X | 0.221 |
| 41 | Journal of Music, Technology and Education | Intellect Ltd. | 17527074, 17527066 | 0.217 |
| 42 | Twentieth-Century Music | Cambridge University Press | 14785722, 14785730 | 0.217 |
| 43 | Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education | Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) | 14115115, 25412426 | 0.211 |
| 44 | American Imago | Johns Hopkins University Press | 10857931, 0065860X | 0.21 |
| 45 | Popular Music and Society | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 3007766 | 0.21 |
| 46 | Computer Music Journal | MIT Press Journals | 01489267, 15315169 | 0.205 |
| 47 | Musica Hodie | Universidade Federal De Goias (UFG) | 16763939 | 0.204 |
| 48 | Musica Tecnologia | Firenze University Press | 19740042, 19740050 | 0.204 |
| 49 | Journal of Musicology | University of California Press | 15338347, 02779269 | 0.201 |
| 50 | Contemporary Music Review | Routledge | 7494467 | 0.196 |
| 51 | Letonica | Latvian University | 14073110 | 0.196 |
| 52 | Popular Music | Cambridge University Press | 14740095, 02611430 | 0.189 |
| 53 | Journal of Urban Culture Research | Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts | 24081213, 22288279 | 0.181 |
| 54 | Leonardo | MIT Press Journals | 0024094X | 0.178 |
| 55 | Punk and Post-Punk | Intellect Ltd. | 20443706, 20441983 | 0.178 |
| 56 | Journal of Folklore Research | Indiana University Press | 15430413, 07377037 | 0.169 |
| 57 | Philosophy of Music Education Review | Indiana University Press | 10635734, 15433412 | 0.168 |
| 58 | Journal of General Music Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 27527646 | 0.164 |
| 59 | Notes | Music Library Association | 1534150X, 00274380 | 0.164 |
| 60 | Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana | Universidad Complutense Madrid | 25309900, 11365536 | 0.163 |
| 61 | Muzikoloski Zbornik | University of Ljubljana | 0580373X | 0.162 |
| 62 | Tempo | Cambridge University Press | 00402982, 14782286 | 0.162 |
| 63 | Music & Medicine | 1943863X, 19438621 | 0.16 | |
| 64 | IASPM Journal | International Association for the Study of Popular Music | 20793871 | 0.158 |
| 65 | Music Reference Services Quarterly | Routledge | 10588167 | 0.158 |
| 66 | Music Educators Journal | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00274321, 19450087 | 0.157 |
| 67 | Dix-Neuf | Maney Publishing | 14787318 | 0.154 |
| 68 | Early American Studies | University of Pennsylvania Press | 15434273, 15590895 | 0.151 |
| 69 | Music, Sound and the Moving Image | Liverpool University Press | 17530776, 17530768 | 0.144 |
| 70 | Journal of the Society for American Music | Cambridge University Press | 17521971, 17521963 | 0.143 |
| 71 | Opus | 15177017, 01037412 | 0.139 | |
| 72 | Musical Art and Education | 23091428 | 0.137 | |
| 73 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 15331598, 15242226 | 0.136 |
| 74 | Journal of Band Research | Troy State University Press | 219207 | 0.135 |
| 75 | Colloquia | Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore | 18223737 | 0.133 |
| 76 | Revista Musical Chilena | Universidad de Chile | 07176252, 07162790 | 0.132 |
| 77 | Cahiers d'Ethnomusicologie | Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie | 1662372X | 0.131 |
| 78 | Muziki | Routledge | 1753593X, 18125980 | 0.131 |
| 79 | Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Visuales y Artes Escenicas | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | 17946670, 22159959 | 0.13 |
| 80 | Horror Studies | Intellect Ltd. | 20403283, 20403275 | 0.13 |
| 81 | Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Iskusstvovedenie | Saint Petersburg State University | 25422243, 22213007 | 0.128 |
| 82 | Wacana Seni | Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia | 16753410, 21804311 | 0.128 |
| 83 | Hudebni Veda | Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | 187003 | 0.123 |
| 84 | Journal of Historical Research in Music Education | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15366006, 23282525 | 0.123 |
| 85 | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge University Press | 14716933, 02690403 | 0.123 |
| 86 | Music and Letters | Oxford University Press | 14774631, 00274224 | 0.123 |
| 87 | Music in Art | City University of New York | 15227464, 21699488 | 0.123 |
| 88 | Bach | Riemenschneider Bach Institute | 53600 | 0.119 |
| 89 | Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa | Routledge | 2070626X, 18121004 | 0.119 |
| 90 | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge University Press | 14794098, 20448414 | 0.119 |
| 91 | Journal of Musicological Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1411896 | 0.117 |
| 92 | Philomusica | Pavia University Press | 18269001 | 0.117 |
| 93 | American Music | University of Illinois Press | 7344392 | 0.116 |
| 94 | Eighteenth-Century Music | Cambridge University Press | 14785714, 14785706 | 0.116 |
| 95 | Journal of Music Research | National Taiwan Normal University-College of Music | 20798857 | 0.116 |
| 96 | Leonardo Music Journal | MIT Press Journals | 9611215 | 0.116 |
| 97 | Opera | Opera magazine | 303526 | 0.116 |
| 98 | Journal of Applied Arts and Health | Intellect Ltd. | 20402465, 20402457 | 0.115 |
| 99 | Journal of Creative Music Systems | University of Huddersfield Press | 23997656 | 0.115 |
| 100 | Resonancias | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 07195702, 07173474 | 0.115 |
| 101 | Per Musi | Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais | 15177599 | 0.113 |
| 102 | Spolia | Spolia | 1824727X | 0.112 |
| 103 | Cambridge Opera Journal | Cambridge University Press | 9545867 | 0.111 |
| 104 | Co-herencia | Universidad EAFIT | 17945887 | 0.111 |
| 105 | Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts | Universidade Catolica Portuguesa | 16469798, 21830088 | 0.111 |
| 106 | Nineteenth Century Music | University of California Press | 01482076, 15338606 | 0.111 |
| 107 | Oido Pensante | Centro Argentino de Informacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CAICYT-CONICET) | 22507116 | 0.11 |
| 108 | Slovenske Divadlo | Slovak Academy of Sciences | 0037699X, 13368605 | 0.11 |
| 109 | World of Music | VWB - Verlag f??r Wissenschaft und Bildung | 438774 | 0.11 |
| 110 | Acta Musicologica | Allerton Press Inc. | 16241 | 0.109 |