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American Fern Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by American Fern Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0002-8444Verify ISSN ↗1938-422XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Fern Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 496 / 736 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 373 / 541 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
American Fern Journal is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 496 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 373 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
American Fern Journal 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.242, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
American Fern Journal is published by American Fern Society. Its print ISSN is 0002-8444 and its online ISSN is 1938-422X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Fern Journal has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #570 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
American Fern Journal published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 31. 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 73 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (52.9%), Mexico (7.2%) and Brazil (5.5%). 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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