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Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SSCI. Published by American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
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ISSN 1093-6793Verify ISSN ↗1943-3662Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 132 / 209 | 37th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 391 / 580 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 132 of 209) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 391 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.353, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 70.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is published by American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Its print ISSN is 1093-6793 and its online ISSN is 1943-3662.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law published 43 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 54. 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.
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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