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Journal of American Ethnic History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Illinois Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0278-5927Verify ISSN ↗1936-4695Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 944 / 1936 | 51st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 867 / 1434 | 39th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 394 / 536 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of American Ethnic History is Q2 in History (rank 944 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 867 of 1434) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 394 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of American Ethnic History 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Journal of American Ethnic History is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0278-5927 and its online ISSN is 1936-4695.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of American Ethnic History has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of American Ethnic History published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 121. 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 67 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.5%), Italy (3%) and Canada (1.5%). 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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