Journal profile · ART
American Art
ISSN 1073-9300 · eISSN 1549-6503 · University of Chicago Press
American Art: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; 24 articles in 2025; indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
American Art is published by University of Chicago Press and is in Zone 3 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Art, Politics, and Modernism, Art History and Market Analysis and Photography and Visual Culture, together about 41.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Visual Arts and Performing Arts. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Frequency: 3 issues/year ISSN: 1073-9300 E-ISSN: 1549-6503 American Art publishes innovative peer-reviewed scholarship on the history of art and related visual culture. The journal critically engages with the material and conceptual conditions of art and provides a forum for the expanding field of American art history. It welcomes scholarship on the role played by art in the ongoing transnational and transcultural formation of America as a contested geography, identity, and idea. Committed to rigorous inquiry, the journal presents a range of approaches to the production and consumption of art. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for American Art. Media People’s Revives the Avant-Garde Gallery With an Alluring Cocktail Lounge in Greenwich Village Read the American Art article cited in The New York Observer January 14, 2025 The legacy and mystery of the display of Native American art at the 1932 Venice Biennale Read the American Art article cited in The Art Newspaper May 24, 2024 Photography: Real and Imagined at the NGV – a huge and dazzling exhibition that reexamines our thinking Read the American Art article cited in EconoTimes November 13, 2023 All media
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ART
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities17.2%
- Art History and Market AnalysisArts and Humanities12.4%
- Photography and Visual CultureArts and Humanities12.3%
- Visual Culture and Art TheoryArts and Humanities9.3%
- Historical Art and Culture StudiesArts and Humanities8.2%
- American Environmental and Regional HistoryEnvironmental Science3.5%
- Public Spaces through ArtSocial Sciences3.1%
- Cinema and Media StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Arts Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Art | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
AHCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 86OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.15OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,280 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 24 | 2 | 6 |
| 2024 | 31 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023 | 32 | 5 | 4 |
| 2022 | 34 | 1 | 14 |
| 2021 | 31 | 0 | 62 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISSN
- 1073-9300
- Electronic ISSN
- 1549-6503
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about American Art
What CAS zone is American Art in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, American Art is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Art. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index American Art?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, American Art is indexed in AHCI and Scopus.
Is American Art open access, and what is the APC?
American Art is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .