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American Imago is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0065-860XVerify ISSN ↗1085-7931Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 490 / 1186 | 58th | Q2 |
| Music | 118 / 196 | 40th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 427 / 692 | 38th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 426 / 536 | 20th | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 165 / 169 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1964–1980, 1946–1953), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
American Imago is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 490 of 1186), Q3 in Music (rank 118 of 196) and Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 427 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
American Imago is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
American Imago is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0065-860X and its online ISSN is 1085-7931.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Imago has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
American Imago published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 47. 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.
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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