Leonardo Music Journal

Leonardo Music Journal is published by MIT Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Music Technology and Sound Studies, Musicology and Musical Analysis and Sound Studies and Aurality, together about 75.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Music and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ), published by The MIT Press, for 30 years was the companion annual journal to Leonardo devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Each volume includes the latest offering from the LMJ audio series—an exciting sampling of works chosen by a guest curator and accompanied by notes from the composers and performers. LMJ features articles written by composers and artists about their own work. It has three main editorial areas: it is particularly concerned with the interplay between new technologies, music and sound art; LMJ seeks to document ways in which contemporary science and technology are changing our understanding of sound and music, as well as other ways in which science and technology may be relevant to contemporary composers and sound artists; finally it seeks to document the work of composers and sound artists developing new multimedia art forms that combine sound with other media, particularly works that take advantage of new multimedia and interactive technologies. In addition to documenting the work of composers and sound artists, LMJ addresses theoretical and historical issues that are relevant to contemporary sound and music making. Issues in experimental sound work and music that do not utilize contemporary science and technology are also addressed to the extent that they represent important elements in the development of new directions in contemporary music, sound and multimedia arts worldwide.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): MUSIC

CAS Journal Ranking

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.14LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.41LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

35OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

122OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

4.55%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

MIT Press

ISSN

0961-1215

Electronic ISSN

1531-4812

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex