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American Journal of Human Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Liss Inc..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1042-0533Verify ISSN ↗1520-6300Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 60 / 536 | 88th | Q1 |
| Anatomy | 16 / 50 | 69th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 243 / 736 | 67th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 218 / 357 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
American Journal of Human Biology is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 60 of 536), Q2 in Anatomy (rank 16 of 50) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 243 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
American Journal of Human Biology 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.621, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 103.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,550 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 Human Biology is published by Wiley-Liss Inc. Its print ISSN is 1042-0533 and its online ISSN is 1520-6300.
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 Human Biology has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
American Journal of Human Biology published 221 papers in 2025. 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 (23.6%), Türkiye (8.8%) and Brazil (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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