Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Journal of American Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1542-7331Verify ISSN ↗1542-734XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 513 / 1186 | 56th | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 341 / 697 | 51st | Q2 |
| History | 1110 / 1936 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 974 / 1434 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1996–1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of American Culture is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 513 of 1186), Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 341 of 697) and Q3 in History (rank 1110 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of American Culture 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Journal of American Culture is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1542-7331 and its online ISSN is 1542-734X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of American Culture has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of American Culture published 82 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 154. 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 87 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.7%), Canada (8%) and United Kingdom (3.4%). 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. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.