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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0002-9378Verify ISSN ↗1097-6868Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$5,410 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 3 / 218 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1920–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.1.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology is Q1 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 3 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 15.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 284.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,410 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 Obstetrics and Gynecology is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0002-9378 and its online ISSN is 1097-6868.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has an h-index of 385 and a 2-year mean of 2.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 210 Scopus journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published 697 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 3,231. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42.8%), United Kingdom (5%) and Poland (4.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 29 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
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