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American Journal of Perinatology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 0735-1631Verify ISSN ↗1098-8785Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 108 / 351 | 69th | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 89 / 218 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
American Journal of Perinatology is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 108 of 351) and Q2 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 89 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Perinatology 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.615, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
American Journal of Perinatology is published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0735-1631 and its online ISSN is 1098-8785.
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 Perinatology has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
American Journal of Perinatology published 299 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 411. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (76%), Japan (5.2%) and Italy (3.9%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
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