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American Biology Teacher is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by National Association of Biology Teachers, Inc.
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ISSN 0002-7685Verify ISSN ↗1938-4211Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Association of Biology Teachers, Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1281 / 1698 | 24th | Q4 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 189 / 235 | 19th | Q4 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 207 / 253 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
American Biology Teacher is Q4 in Education (rank 1281 of 1698), Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 189 of 235) and Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 207 of 253), by CiteScore 2025.
American Biology Teacher is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.233, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
American Biology Teacher is published by National Association of Biology Teachers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0002-7685 and its online ISSN is 1938-4211.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Biology Teacher has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,296 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
American Biology Teacher published 123 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 154. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 19 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (94.7%) and Switzerland (5.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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