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American Museum Novitates is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by American Museum of Natural History.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-0082Verify ISSN ↗1937-352XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 85 / 1936 | 95th | Q1 |
| Museology | 7 / 96 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Archeology | 47 / 388 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
American Museum Novitates is Q1 in History (rank 85 of 1936), Q1 in Museology (rank 7 of 96) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 47 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
American Museum Novitates 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.413, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
American Museum Novitates is published by American Museum of Natural History. Its print ISSN is 0003-0082 and its online ISSN is 1937-352X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Museum Novitates has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
American Museum Novitates published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 69. 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 58 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (57.2%), Brazil (10.2%) and Australia (6.6%). 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. 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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