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American Political Thought is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 2161-1580Verify ISSN ↗2161-1599Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1203 / 1530 | 21st | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 597 / 745 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
American Political Thought is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1203 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 597 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
American Political Thought is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 Q4 at the 21st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
American Political Thought is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 2161-1580 and its online ISSN is 2161-1599.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Political Thought has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,226 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
American Political Thought published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 94. 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 10 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (90%) and United Kingdom (10%). 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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