About this journal
Aims and scope
Popular Music and Society , founded in 1971, publishes articles, book reviews, and audio reviews on popular music of any genre, time period, or geographic location. Popular Music and Society is open to all scholarly orientations toward popular music, including (but not limited to) historical, theoretical, critical, sociological, and cultural approaches. The terms "popular" and "society" are broadly defined to accommodate a wide range of articles on the subject. The journal focuses especially on music as a manifestation of popular culture.
Recent and forthcoming Special Issue topics include: Fandom; Musical Autobiographies; Music, Heritage, and Memory; the Sex Pistols; Pussy Riot; and Music and Work. Popular Music and Society is published five times per year and is a peer-reviewed academic journal supported by an international editorial board.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 179K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.981 (2023) SNIP
- 0.366 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 40 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 305 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 18 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 21% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Gary Burns - Northern Illinois University, USA
Martin Butler - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Thomas M. Kitts - St. John's University, USA
Book Review Editor:
Steven L. Hamelman - Coastal Carolina University, USA
Audio Review Editor:
Steven L. Hamelman - Coastal Carolina University, USA
Film, Video, and Software Review Editor:
Nick Baxter-Moore - Brock University, Canada
Conference Editor:
Polly E. McLean - University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Discovery Editor:
George M. Plasketes - Auburn University, USA
Editorial Board:
Eric J. Abbey - Oakland Community College, USA
Mike Alleyne - Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Garth Alper - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Nick Baxter-Moore - Brock University, Canada
Andy Bennett - Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia
Rob Bowman - York University, Canada
Barbara Bradby - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Thomas Brett - Independent scholar, USA
Tim Brooks - Author; President, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, USA
Anja Brunner - University of Vienna, Austria
Javier Campos Calvo-Sotelo - Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain
Martin Cloonan - University of Turku, Finland
B. Lee Cooper - Newman University, USA
Donald F. Cusic - Belmont University, USA
William R. Ferris - University of North Carolina, USA
Reebee Garofalo - University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA
Laura Glitsos - Edith Cowan University, Australia
Joe Gow - University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA
Thomas B. Grochowski - St. Joseph's University, USA
David J. Gunkel - Northern Illinois University, USA
Steven L. Hamelman - Coastal Carolina University, USA
Mickey Hess - Rider University, USA
Ryan Hibbett - Northern Illinois University, USA
Wai-chung Ho - Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Catherine Hoad - Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa / New Zealand
Ian Inglis - University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
Bruce Johnson - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Brenda Johnson-Grau - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Keith Kahn-Harris - Leo Baeck College and Birkbeck College, UK
Marco Katz Montiel - MacEwan University, Canada
George H. Lewis - University of the Pacific, USA
John Lie - University of California, Berkeley, USA
George Lipsitz - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Michael Mooradian Lupro - Portland State University, USA
Heather Lusty - University of Nevada, USA
Kevin M. Moist - Penn State Altoona, USA
Heather McIntosh - Minnesota State University, USA
Polly E. McLean - University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Mark Pedelty - University of Minnesota
David Pichaske - Southwest Minnesota State University, USA
George M. Plasketes - Auburn University, USA
Robert Pruter - Lewis University, USA
Jonathan Ritter - University of California, Riverside, USA
Robert Santelli - Oregon State University, USA
Timothy E. Scheurer - Shawnee State University, USA
William L. Schurk - Bowling Green State University, USA
Mehdi Semati - Northern Illinois University, USA
Marsha Siefert - Central European University, Hungary
Robynn J. Stilwell - Georgetown University, USA
Jonathan Sullivan - University of Nottingham, UK
Theodore Louis Trost - University of Alabama, USA
Mel van Elteren - Tilburg University, Netherlands
Steve Waksman - Smith College, USA
Robert Walser - Case Western Reserve University, USA
Deena Weinstein - DePaul University, USA
Christine R. Yano - University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Advisory Board:
Jim Christopulos - Howard & the White Boys, USA
Jim Deloye - Chicago, USA
David Feldman - Writer, USA
Erik Lindgren - Arf! Arf! Records and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, USA
Ted Myers - M usician, Recording Artist, Record Producer, A&R Manager, Writer, USA
Suzy Shaw - Bomp Records, USA
Patricia Thompson - Recording Artist
Abstracting and indexing
Popular Music & Society is abstracted and indexed in:
America: History and Life; British Humanities Index; International Index to Music Periodicals; Communication Abstracts; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Humanities Index; Humanities International Index; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; International Index to Music Periodicals; OCLC; ProQuest Central; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale); SCOPUS; The Music Index; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Open access
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- 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)
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