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American Naturalist is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. Published by University of Chicago.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-0147Verify ISSN ↗1537-5323Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 114 / 736 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1978–1979, 1973–1975, 1960–1961, 1946–1948), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
American Naturalist is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 114 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
American Naturalist 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.180, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 242.
American Naturalist is published by University of Chicago. Its print ISSN is 0003-0147 and its online ISSN is 1537-5323.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Naturalist has an h-index of 423 and a 2-year mean of 2.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
American Naturalist published 138 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 220. 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 52 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.5%), South Africa (6.1%) and United Kingdom (5.4%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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