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Scientific American is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Scientific American Inc..
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ISSN 0036-8733Verify ISSN ↗1946-7087Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific American Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 210 / 223 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–2025 (also 1947–1950), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Scientific American is Q4 in Multidisciplinary (rank 210 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Scientific American 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 6th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.112, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 106.
Scientific American is published by Scientific American Inc. Its print ISSN is 0036-8733 and its online ISSN is 1946-7087.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scientific American has an h-index of 259 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Scientific American published 417 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 621. 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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