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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SSCI. Published by American Orthopsychiatric Association Inc..
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ISSN 0002-9432Verify ISSN ↗1939-0025Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Orthopsychiatric Association Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 82 / 692 | 88th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 23 / 118 | 80th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 118 / 380 | 69th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 212 / 580 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1930–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 82 of 692), Q1 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 23 of 118) and Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 118 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is indexed in the 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.859, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is published by American Orthopsychiatric Association Inc. Its print ISSN is 0002-9432 and its online ISSN is 1939-0025.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry has an h-index of 182 and a 2-year mean of 3.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry published 93 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 116. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.8%), Israel (25.3%) and Canada (6.6%). 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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