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American Journal of Biological Anthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2692-7691Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,840 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 47 / 536 | 91st | Q1 |
| Anatomy | 15 / 50 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 47 of 536) and Q2 in Anatomy (rank 15 of 50), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.876, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 150.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,840 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2692-7691.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology published 229 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 231. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (30.5%), Germany (8%) and United Kingdom (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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