40 Music journals (Arts and Humanities) in ORBIT Tier 4 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 4: bottom quarter of Arts and Humanities by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Университетский научный журнал | 2222-5064 | 119 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Notes | 0027-4380 | 104 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Die Musikforschung | 0027-4801 | 87 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| Ukrainian music | 2224-0926 | 86 | 4 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Ukraine |
| Problems of Interaction Between Arts Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education | 2519-4496 | 63 | 4 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Ukraine |
| Early Music | 0306-1078 | 56 | 4 | ≈ ₹3,95,429 to publish | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Muzykovedenie. | 2072-9979 | 56 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Studiul artelor şi culturologie istorie teorie practică | 2345-1408 | 55 | 4 | ≈ ₹6,180 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Музыка и время | 2072-9960 | 53 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation | 1712-0624 | 41 | 4 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Canada |
| Revista portuguesa de musicologia | 0871-9705 | 30 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Portugal |
| Culture Art Education | 2949-1762 | 29 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Musica Theorica | 2525-5541 | 23 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Brazil |
| American Music | 0734-4392 | 21 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Bach | 0005-3600 | 21 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Edukacja Muzyczna | 1895-8079 | 21 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film | 1748-3727 | 18 | 4 | ≈ ₹3,27,517 to publish | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Cercetări și Studii Etno - muzicologie Bizantinologie Etnologie | 2734-6897 | 17 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis | 1383-7079 | 17 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies | 2057-0341 | 16 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Notes Muzyczny | 2353-9593 | 16 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Poland |
| RODOLFO HOLZMANN | 2955-8824 | 16 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Peru |
| Context | 1038-4006 | 15 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Australia |
| Ex Chordis | 3034-8781 | 15 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Italy |
| Journal of Music and Theory | 1975-3225 | 15 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| Archiv für Musikwissenschaft | 0003-9292 | 14 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| PlaySpace | 2703-9838 | 14 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Norway |
| Zbornik Akademije umetnosti | 2334-8666 | 13 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Serbia |
| Átemus | 0719-885X | 12 | 4 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Iskusstvo muzyki: teoriâ i istoriâ. | 2307-5015 | 12 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Fine Arts Campus | 2795-1774 | 12 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Nepal |
| Lucrări de Muzicologie | 1222-894X | 12 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Romania |
| Musica docta | 2039-9715 | 12 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Italy |
| Musicology Papers | 2068-8601 | 12 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Romania |
| Global punk | 2632-8313 | 11 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| openwork | 2767-7060 | 11 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Perfect Beat | 1038-2909 | 11 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Australia |
| Resonance Journal of Global Music Studies | 3053-4410 | 11 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| StiMMe - Studentisches Musikwissenschaftsmagazin | 2941-3621 | 11 | 4 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| The Musical Quarterly | 0027-4631 | 10 | 4 | ≈ ₹4,43,593 to publish | No | No | United States |