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Journal of Transnational American Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by University of California, Santa Barbara.
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ISSN 1940-0764Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California, Santa Barbara
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 135 / 175 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1109 / 1434 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Communication | 497 / 541 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025 (also 2009–2013), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Transnational American Studies is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 135 of 175), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1109 of 1434) and Q4 in Communication (rank 497 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Transnational American Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.139, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Transnational American Studies is published by University of California, Santa Barbara. Its ISSN is 1940-0764.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Transnational American Studies has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Journal of Transnational American Studies published 83 papers in 2025. 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 29 research articles (2025), authors are most often from United States (44.8%), Belgium (10.3%) and Germany (8.6%).
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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