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Music and Letters

Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · Est. 1920

ISSN1477-4631

SJR Q3✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

Find the journal’s official page ↗Open the official JCR record on Clarivate ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3 · Scopus CiteScore 0.7. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.126

H-Indexi

CiteScorei

0.7

SNIPi

0.91

Total Worksi

16,903

Total Citationsi

13,186

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.02

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Music & Letters is a leading international journal of musical scholarship, publishing articles on topics ranging from antiquity to the present day and embracing musics from classical, popular, and world traditions …

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1920

Annual Volume~ 134 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications16,903

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Oxford University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1477-4631

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

114

214

2019

2020

124

2021

106

2022

2023

105

2024

211

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

MusicQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Music

Scopus Categories

Music

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Musicology and Musical AnalysisDiverse Musicological StudiesPoetry Analysis and CriticismMusic Technology and Sound StudiesMusic History and CultureTheater, Performance, and Music HistoryDiverse Music Education InsightsSamuel Beckett and ModernismHistorical Influence and DiplomacyHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Frequently asked questions about Music and Letters

Is Music and Letters a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Music and Letters: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Music and Letters?

Music and Letters is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7.

Is Music and Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Music and Letters is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.