MSD Journal Information

Musicological Society and Research Studies in Music Education is an international refereed journal that draws its contributions from a wide community of researchers. The focus is firmly on research, and the journal provides an international forum for cross-cultural investigations and discussions relating to all areas of music education. Music Education Research welcomes articles that report on and discuss research and methodological issues from the point of view of philosophy, sociology, psychology, and comparative studies. The journal is concerned with the dissemination of ideas relating to practical and theoretical developments in the field. Education is interpreted in a broad sense including teaching and learning; formal and informal contexts; musical development; musical creativity and perception; instrumental/vocal studies; technologies; special needs, community settings; socio-cultural issues; policy; curriculum design, and assessment. Music Education Research encourages authors to write in a lucid and accessible style, avoiding impenetrable jargon and taking care to communicate to an international readership. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

Musicological Society and Research Studies in Music Education peer-reviewed journal that promotes the dissemination and discussion of high-quality research in music and music education. The journal encourages the interrogation and development of a range of research methodologies and their application to diverse topics in music education theory and practice. The journal covers a wide range of topics across all areas of music education and a separate "Perspectives in Music Education Research" section provides a forum for researchers to discuss topics of special interest and to debate key issues in the profession.

Reasons to Publish:

• Global readership

• MSD Publications journal boasts an expert Editorial Board that helps with quality decision-making, choosing referees, and reviewing manuscripts playing a key role in providing quality knowledge to the world.
• Fast publication: Processing in between 12 to 21 working days.
• Promoting published articles on social media.
• Copyright retainment is provided to authors licensing the article under a Creative Commons license.
• Accepted articles will be published online as PDF versions, HTML, video files, Infographics, Audio files, and curated web content.
• MSD Publications journals follow the highest standard of double-blinded peer review, thereby subjecting the articles to the quality peer-review process.
• Content is published without any space constraints.

All published articles are assigned to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) – Crossref. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of *Google Scholar.  All published articles are permanently archived and available on the MSD Publications website in HTML and PDF formats.