Plainsong and Medieval Music

Aims & Scope

Plainsong & Medieval Music is published twice a year in association with the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society and Cantus Planus, study group of the International Musicological Society.

It covers the entire spectrum of medieval music: Eastern and Western chant, secular lyric, music theory, palaeography, performance practice, and medieval polyphony, both sacred and secular, as well as the history of musical institutions.

The chronological scope of the journal extends from late antiquity to the early Renaissance and to the present day in the case of chant.

In addition to book reviews in each issue, a comprehensive bibliography of chant research and a discography of recent and re-issued plainchant recordings appear annually.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.102

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29740

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

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• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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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.

• Reading and rhythm in the ‘La Clayette’ manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 13521)

  Citation: 32

  Authors: SEAN

• Johannes de Grocheio on secular music: a corrected text and a new translation

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Christopher

• New light on Jacobus, Author of <b><i>Speculum musicae</i></b>

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Karen

• Signature-systems and tonal types in the fourteenth-century French chanson

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Peter M.

• ‘S’en dirai chançonete’: hearing text and music in a medieval motet

  Citation: 8

  Authors: SUZANNAH

• Melodic dialects in Old Hispanic chant

  Citation: 8

  Authors: EMMA, REBECCA

• Tonal structure and the melodic role of chromatic inflections in the music of Machaut

  Citation: 8

  Authors: JENNIFER

• Enhancing the <i>Ave Maria</i> in the Ars Antiqua

  Citation: 6

  Authors: MICHAEL ALAN

• Another <i>Mirror of Lovers?</i> - Order, structure and allusion in Machaut's motets

  Citation: 6

  Authors: THOMAS

• The music of prose offices in honour of English saints

  Citation: 6

  Authors: DAVID

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