[AUDITORY] Call for submissions: Music & Science

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Call for submissions: Music & Science

Launched in 2017, Music & Science is a peer-reviewed open access online journal published by SAGE in association with SEMPRE.

Music & Science provides a platform for engaged debate and insight into music research from a wide range of scientific perspectives. Scientific research is integral to gaining a greater understanding of how music is a cultural phenomenon and is yet grounded in our biology. Interdisciplinary in scope and focus, the journal aims to publish research across the field of music and science as broadly conceived, encompassing studies in cognition, neuroscience and psychoacoustics; development and education; philosophy and aesthetics; ethnomusicology and music sociology; archaeology and ethology; music theory, analysis and historical studies; performance science and practice-based research; computational approaches and studies in digital culture; acoustics, sound studies, and soundscape studies; music therapy; and clinical implications and approaches, including psychoneuroimmunology, health and well-being.  

Recent titles that might be of interest to subscribers of this list include:

• Linda Becker: Familiarity affects the same event-related brain potential components in note readers and non-note readers
• Fabian Greb, Jochen Steffens, & Wolff Schlotz: Understanding music-selection behavior via statistical learning: Using the percentile-Lasso to identify the most important factors
• Niels Chr. Hansen & David Huron: Twirling triplets: The qualia of rotation and musical rhythm
• Rhimmon Simchy-Gross & Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis: The sound-to-music illusion: Repetition can musicalize nonspeech sounds	

Music & Science welcomes original research, commentaries and reviews, and sets no upper or lower limit on article length. Open access (http://www.sagepub.com/oa/oafaq.cp) means anyone anywhere in the world can read, use and cite your research, which leads to greater visibility and impact, and may encourage collaborations and faster developments in your field. As the journal is online it can host multimedia, audio and video, alongside your submission. Authors are encouraged to summarise their work in a vodcast (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mns/videos/vodcasts to add impact). We strive for fast but always thorough peer review.  The time from submission to first decision is on average 8 weeks, and the time from acceptance to online publication is only 4 weeks.

Special Collections
The journal also welcomes proposals for Special Collections. The journal’s first Special Collection (scheduled for publication in 2019) is ‘Music, Selves and Societies’ edited by Katie Overy. Guidelines for submitting proposals for Special Collections can be found on the journal website: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mns/spec/prop.

Music & Science is an open access journal. Together with SAGE, the editors aim to ensure that Article Processing Charges (APCs) are kept as low as possible so as to stimulate submissions from international researchers at all stages in their career. Currently there is no APC.

Find out more about the journal here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/music-science/journal202491.

Ian Cross (Editor-in-Chief), Adam Ockelford, Graham Welch, Emily Payne