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Journal of American Folklore is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Folklore Society.
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ISSN 0021-8715Verify ISSN ↗1535-1882Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Folklore Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 226 / 1434 | 84th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 185 / 692 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1987), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of American Folklore is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 226 of 1434) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 185 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of American Folklore 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.192, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of American Folklore is published by American Folklore Society. Its print ISSN is 0021-8715 and its online ISSN is 1535-1882.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of American Folklore has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 0.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #319 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of American Folklore published 89 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 102. 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 79 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (71.5%), Australia (2.5%) and China (2.5%). 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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