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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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ISSN 0002-9637Verify ISSN ↗1476-1645Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 41 / 82 | 50th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 196 / 361 | 45th | Q3 |
| Virology | 54 / 86 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is Q2 in Parasitology (rank 41 of 82), Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 196 of 361) and Q3 in Virology (rank 54 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.674, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 178.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Its print ISSN is 0002-9637 and its online ISSN is 1476-1645.
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 Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has an h-index of 250 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene published 505 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 830. 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 (22.4%), India (16.1%) and China (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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