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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.7), WoS SCIE. Published by National Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 0027-8424Verify ISSN ↗1091-6490Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 12 / 223 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present (also 1945–1951), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.7.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 12 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 14.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.283, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 929.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is published by National Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0027-8424 and its online ISSN is 1091-6490.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America has an h-index of 1,179 and a 2-year mean of 8.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published 4,374 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (40.5%), China (21.4%) and Canada (4.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 304 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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