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ATS Scholar is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by American Thoracic Society.
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Publisher: American Thoracic Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 54 / 122 | 56th | Q2 |
| Education | 747 / 1698 | 56th | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 95 / 165 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 258 / 403 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
ATS Scholar is Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 54 of 122), Q2 in Education (rank 747 of 1698) and Q3 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 95 of 165), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
ATS Scholar 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.487, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
ATS Scholar is published by American Thoracic Society. Its ISSN is 2690-7097.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
ATS Scholar has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
ATS Scholar published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 88. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (88.2%), Canada (4.5%) and Singapore (1.2%). 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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