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American Journal of Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 25.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by American Psychiatric Association.
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ISSN 0002-953XVerify ISSN ↗1535-7228Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 5 / 580 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 25.2.
American Journal of Psychiatry is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 5 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Psychiatry 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 25.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.082, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 418.
American Journal of Psychiatry is published by American Psychiatric Association. Its print ISSN is 0002-953X and its online ISSN is 1535-7228.
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 Psychiatry has an h-index of 554 and a 2-year mean of 8.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 25.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
American Journal of Psychiatry published 182 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 255. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (58.2%), United Kingdom (6.3%) and Canada (4.6%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
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