Aims & Scope

Journal of World Popular Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and scholarship on recent issues and debates surrounding international popular musics, also known as World Music, Global Pop, World Beat or, more recently, World Music 2.0.

The journal provides a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of post-globalizing trends, processes, and dynamics surrounding these musics today.

It adopts an open-minded perspective, including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics.

Placing specific emphasis on contemporary, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives, the journal’s special features include empirical research and scholarship into the global creative and music industries, the participants of World Music, the musics themselves and their representations in all media forms today, among other relevant themes and issues; alongside explorations of recent ideas and perspectives from popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, musicology, communication, media and cultural studies, sociology, geography, art and museum studies, and other fields with a scholarly focus on World Music.

The journal also features special, guest-edited issues that bring together contributions under a unifying theme or geographical area.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year Value
2025 0.3
2024 0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year Value
2024 0.155

Quartile

Year Value
2024 Q2

h-index

Year Value
2024 6

Journal Rank

Year Value
2024 24135

Journal Citation Indicator

Year Value
2024 15

Impact Factor Trend


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Subjects & Keywords

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Most Cited Articles

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Quick Facts

Current Factor
0.3
First Published: 2025

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

SJR
0.155
First Published: 2024

Quartile

Current Quartile
Q2
First Published: 2024

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