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American Sociologist is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-1232Verify ISSN ↗1936-4784Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 254 / 744 | 65th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 539 / 1530 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–1975 (also 1978–1979, 1981, 1987–1996, 2005–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
American Sociologist is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 254 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 539 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
American Sociologist 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.483, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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 Sociologist is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0003-1232 and its online ISSN is 1936-4784.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Sociologist has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #330 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
American Sociologist published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 49. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (42.7%), Italy (12%) and United Kingdom (7.4%).
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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