Music, Sound and the Moving Image

Aims & Scope

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound in moving image media, including film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia.

The journal is truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, including musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology.

The journal also provides an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding community of media music scholars.

The journal is published twice a year, and its first issues were open, embracing this diversity of topics and approaches.

Themed issues, under a guest editor, now alternate with open issues, encouraging writers to explore areas under-represented in current literature.

The editors welcome contributions offering the broadest interpretation of the journal’s title, not only seeking to build upon the existing scholarship on film music and film sound, but also to challenge its theoretical assumptions, and to extend its boundaries to include the full variety of moving image media and traditions.

View Aims & Scope

---

Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.101

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	30206

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	8

---

---

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

---

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Computer Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

---

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• SOPHIE’s ‘Faceshopping’ as (Anti-)Lyric Video

  Citation: 24

  Authors: MATHIAS BONDE

• ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Emily

• Musical Pathfinding; or How to Listen to Interactive Music Video

  Citation: 24

  Authors: ANDERS AKTOR

• Interview with Music Video Director and Auteur Floria Sigismondi

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Carol, Hannah

• <b>Sound Design is the New Score</b>

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Danijela

• The Labour of Breath

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Liz

• <b>Corporeality, Musical Heartbeats, and Cinematic Emotion</b>

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Ben

• Corporate Classicism and the Metaphysical Style

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Nicholas

• The Music Video in Transformation: Notes on a Hybrid Audiovisual Configuration

  Citation: 14

  Authors: TOMÁŠ, MATHIAS BONDE

• Spaces, Gaps, and Levels

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Daniel

---