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American Mineralogist is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-004XVerify ISSN ↗1945-3027Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 36 / 183 | 80th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 42 / 164 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1979, 1974, 1968–1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
American Mineralogist is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 36 of 183) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 42 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
American Mineralogist 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.036, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 170.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$100 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 Mineralogist is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0003-004X and its online ISSN is 1945-3027.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Mineralogist has an h-index of 226 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
American Mineralogist published 166 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 307. 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 China (29.8%), United States (22.8%) and Germany (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is 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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