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American Journal of Philology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 0002-9475Verify ISSN ↗1086-3168Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 9 / 196 | 95th | Q1 |
| Literature and Literary Theory | 77 / 1186 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 379 / 1434 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 352 / 1137 | 69th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 428 / 1221 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1995–1997, 1992–1993, 1985–1989, 1978–1980, 1976, 1972–1973), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
American Journal of Philology is Q1 in Classics (rank 9 of 196), Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 77 of 1186) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 379 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
American Journal of Philology is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
American Journal of Philology is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0002-9475 and its online ISSN is 1086-3168.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Philology has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
American Journal of Philology published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 47. 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.
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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