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American Journal of Surgical Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health.
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ISSN 0147-5185Verify ISSN ↗1532-0979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | 1 / 50 | 99th | Q1 |
| Surgery | 14 / 597 | 97th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 15 / 209 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
American Journal of Surgical Pathology is Q1 in Anatomy (rank 1 of 50), Q1 in Surgery (rank 14 of 597) and Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 15 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Surgical Pathology 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.632, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 254.
American Journal of Surgical Pathology is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. Its print ISSN is 0147-5185 and its online ISSN is 1532-0979.
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 Surgical Pathology has an h-index of 306 and a 2-year mean of 4.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 49 Scopus journals in Anatomy.
American Journal of Surgical Pathology published 154 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 223. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (53.9%), China (7.1%) and France (6.9%). 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. 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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