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American Art

University of Chicago Press · United States · Est. 1987

ISSN1549-6503

SJR Q4✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.103

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,268

Total Citationsi

3,144

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Art; Cultural Studies; Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,268

Publisher OrgUniversity of Chicago Press

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

University of Chicago Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1549-6503

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

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Citations received

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Cultural StudiesQ4

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Art

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesVisual Arts and Performing Arts

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Art, Politics, and ModernismPhotography and Visual CultureArt History and Market AnalysisVisual Culture and Art TheoryHistorical Art and Culture StudiesAmerican Environmental and Regional HistoryPublic Spaces through ArtCinema and Media StudiesArt, Technology, and CultureGeographies of human-animal interactions

Frequently asked questions about American Art

Is American Art a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for American Art: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of American Art?

American Art is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.07.

Is American Art indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

American Art is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of American Art?