Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Museology
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
ISSN 2514-3298 · Ubiquity Press · United Kingdom
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval: impact factor 2 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 33 weeks (community reports); 27 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval is published by Ubiquity Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Music and Audio Processing, Music Technology and Sound Studies and Neuroscience and Music Perception, together about 73.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Music. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval publishes novel scientific research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science and electrical engineering. TSIMIR supports various articles types including Research, Dataset, Overview, and Educational articles. For more information on these, see our submissions page: Article Types. Topics of interest include: MIR Data and Fundamentals (audio signal processing; symbolic music processing; metadata, linked data and semantic web; social tags and user generated data; natural language processing, text and web mining; multimodal approaches to MIR) Methodology of MIR (methodological issues and philosophical foundations; evaluation methodology; corpus creation; legal, social and ethical issues) Domain Knowledge (representation of musical knowledge; music perception and cognition; computational musicology) Musical Features and Properties (melody and motives; harmony, chords and tonality; rhythm, beat and tempo; structure, segmentation and form; timbre, instrumentation and voice; musical style and genre; musical affect, emotion and mood; expression and performative aspects of music) Music Information Processing (sound source separation; music transcription and annotation; optical music recognition; alignment and score following; music summarisation; music synthesis and transformation; fingerprinting; automatic classification; indexing and querying; pattern matching and detection; similarity metrics) Applications (user behaviour and modelling; user interfaces and interaction; digital libraries and archives; music retrieval systems; music recommendation and playlist generation; music and health, wellbeing and therapy; music training and education; MIR applications in music composition, performance and production; music and gaming; MIR in business and marketing) TISMIR was established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility o
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Museology
Editor-in-chief Meinard MüllerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 8, United Kingdom 5, Germany 3, Austria 3, South Korea 2 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Music and Audio ProcessingComputer Science32.3%
- Music Technology and Sound StudiesComputer Science28.4%
- Neuroscience and Music PerceptionNeuroscience12.6%
- Speech and Audio ProcessingComputer Science8.5%
- Diverse Musicological StudiesArts and Humanities6.9%
- Speech Recognition and SynthesisComputer Science1.3%
- Musicology and Musical AnalysisArts and Humanities1.1%
- Music History and CultureArts and Humanities0.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceDBLPERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI, J-Gate, OCLC, CLOCKSS, Crossref
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.46LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 21OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 48OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.14OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 30%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 24LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 20Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 166 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 32 | 6 |
| 2025 | 27 | 27 | 67 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 98 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 | 140 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 210 |
| 2021 | 21 | 21 | 308 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 33 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 33 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | GBP 515 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | GBP 300 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 420 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 530 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- dataset articleDatasets should present novel efforts in data gathering and annotation that have a strong potential impact in the way MIR technologies are exploited and evaluat…Length not stated
- overview articleOverview articles should focus in detail on specific aspects of MIR research. Overview articles will provide a comprehensive review of a broad MIR research prob…Length not stated
- research articleResearch articles must describe the outcomes and application of unpublished original research. These should make a substantial contribution to knowledge and und…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving
- AI use
AI use: Submissions must comply with publisher's guidelines on acceptable use of AI tools. Model summary
Authors should refer to the publisher's guidelines on acceptable use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. All submissions must comply with these guidelines.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship
Length limit: 8,000 words including references, citations, notes. Model summary
The submission is not longer than 8,000 words in length, including all referencing, citation and notes.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Competing interests
If any of the authors have any competing interests then these must be declared. A short paragraph should be placed before the references. Guidelines for competing interests can be found here. If there are no competing interests to declare then the following statement should be present: The author(s) has/have no competing interests to declare.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
References must be accurate, complete, verifiable; reference hallucinations not tolerated. Model summary
All references cited within the submission must be listed at the end of the main text file and must be accurate, complete, and verifiable. Reference hallucinations (fabricated, non-existent, or substantially incorrect references) are not tolerated.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Ethics: Human subjects research must comply with Declaration of Helsinki; ethics committee approval statement required where applicable. Model summary
Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Where applicable, studies must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and the authors should include a statement within the article text detailing this approval, including the name of the ethics committee and reference number of the approval.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright: Authors retain copyright; first publication licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License. Model summary
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms (if a submission is rejected or withdrawn prior to publication, all rights return to the author(s)): Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the PDF format for each paper. Authors of articles published remain the copyright holde…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Anonymization: Submissions for review must be fully anonymized; exceptions require justification in cover letter. Model summary
Submissions for review must be fully anonymized. Authors seeking an exception must explicitly state and justify the exception in the cover letter addressed to the Editors-in-Chief.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint policy: Authors permitted and encouraged to post work online prior to and during submission. Model summary
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving: Authors may enter separate non-exclusive arrangements for distribution of published version. Model summary
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2514-3298
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
What is the impact factor of Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.2, h-index 21.
How long does peer review take at Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval?
Authors report an average review time of about 33 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval based?
Of the 35 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), United Kingdom (5) and Germany (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, DBLP and ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval open access, and what is the APC?
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .