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Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · United States · Est. 1953

ISSN2162-7223

SJR Q1✓ 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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.469

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.894

Total Worksi

889

Total Citationsi

9,278

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.90

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Music; Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1953

Annual Volume~ 16 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications889

Publisher OrgUniversity of Illinois Press

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2162-7223

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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

171

2019

124

2020

170

2021

100

2022

2023

2024

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.

MusicQ1

EducationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Music

Scopus Categories

MusicEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Diverse Music Education InsightsNeuroscience and Music PerceptionMusic Education and AnalysisArt Education and DevelopmentTeacher Education and Leadership StudiesMusic Therapy and HealthMusic Technology and Sound StudiesMusicians’ Health and PerformanceEducation Methods and PracticesMusic History and Culture

Frequently asked questions about Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education

Is Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education: 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 Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education?

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 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. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.90.

Is Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education?