American Scientist
Last updated ISSN 0003-0996
American Scientist is published by Sigma Xi in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Scientist concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Educational Leadership and Practices
- History and Developments in Astronomy
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
- History and Theory of Mathematics
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- American Sports and Literature
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- History of Science and Medicine
Key facts
| Publisher | Sigma Xi |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0003-0996, 1545-2786 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,452 |
| Publishing since | 1869 |
| Journal website | www.americanscientist.org |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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