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American Literary History is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0896-7148Verify ISSN ↗1468-4365Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,605 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 258 / 1186 | 78th | Q1 |
| History | 710 / 1936 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 706 / 1434 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
American Literary History is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 258 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 710 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 706 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
American Literary History 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.139, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,605 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
American Literary History is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0896-7148 and its online ISSN is 1468-4365.
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 Literary History has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
American Literary History published 199 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 258. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (80.9%), Canada (6.2%) and United Kingdom (4.1%). 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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