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American Scholar is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. Published by Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-0937Verify ISSN ↗2162-2892Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 1049 / 1186 | 11th | Q4 |
| History | 1813 / 1936 | 6th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1359 / 1434 | 5th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1504 / 1530 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1999, 1983), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
American Scholar is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 1049 of 1186), Q4 in History (rank 1813 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1359 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
American Scholar 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
American Scholar is published by Phi Beta Kappa Society. Its print ISSN is 0003-0937 and its online ISSN is 2162-2892.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Scholar has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
American Scholar published 2 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 4. 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.
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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