Music Education Research is an international refereed journal which draws its contributions from a wide community of researchers. The focus is firmly on research, and the journal provides an international forum for cross-cultural investigations and discussions relating to all areas of music education.
Music Education Research welcomes articles which report on and discuss research and methodological issues from the point of view of philosophy, sociology, psychology and comparative studies. The journal is concerned with the dissemination of ideas relating to practical and theoretical developments in the field.
Education is interpreted in a broad sense including teaching and learning; formal and informal contexts; musical development; musical creativity and perception; instrumental/vocal studies; technologies; special needs, community settings; socio-cultural issues; policy; curriculum design and assessment. Music Education Research encourages authors to write in a lucid and accessible style, avoiding impenetrable jargon and taking care to communicate to an international readership.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
151K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.8 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
1.9 (2023) 5 year IF
3.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.110 (2023) SNIP
0.541 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
63 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
12 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
14% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor: Mary Stakelum - Royal College of Music, UK
Editorial Assistant: Samuel Mallia - Royal College of Music, UK
Book Reviews Editors: Rupert Avis - Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK Linda Thornton- Penn State School of Music, Pennsylvania, USA
Editorial Board: Thomas De Baets - LUCA School of Arts, Belgium Michele Biasutti - University of Padua, Italy Thade Buchborn - University of Music Freiburg, Germany Pamela Burnard- University of Cambridge, UK Colleen Conway - University of Michigan, USA David Hebert - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Juliet Hess - Michigan State University, USA Panagiotis Kanellopoulos - University of Thessaly, Greece Andrew King - University of Hull, UK Gwen Moore - Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland John O’Flynn - Dublin City University, Ireland Jessica Pitt - Royal College of Music, UK Christian Rolle - Cologne University, Germany Gabriel Rusinek - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Eva Saether - Lund University, Sweden Natassa Economidou Stavrou - University of Nicosia, Cyprus
International Advisory Board: Göran Folkestad - Lund University, Sweden Lucy Green - UCL Institute of Education, UK Wilfried Gruhn - University of Music Freiburg, Germany Sarah Hennessy - Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, UK Wai-Chung Ho - Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China Eleni Lapidaki - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece David Lines - The University of Auckland, New Zealand Gary E. McPherson - University of Melbourne, Australia Liz Mellor - York St John University, UK Elizabeth Oehrle - University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mari Shiobara - Kunitachi College of Music, Japan Rena Upitis - Queen’s University, Canada Peter R Webster - University of Southern California, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Music Education Research is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts of Music Literature; Academic Search; Australian Education Index; Australian Research Council (ARC) Ranked Journal List; British Education Index; Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); RILM; EBSCOhost EJS; Education Resources Information Center ( ERIC); ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities, Pedagogical and Educational Research); National Database for Research into International Education; IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences); The Music Index: A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature; SCOPUS®; Social Sciences Citation Index® and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index®
Open access
Music Education Research is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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