Journal of American Folklore

University of Illinois Press
ISSN: 00218715, 15351882

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SCImago
Q1
Impact factor
0.6
SJR
0.269
CiteScore
1.4
Categories
Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1987, 2002-2023
journal names
Journal of American Folklore
J AM FOLKLORE
Publications
9 643
Citations
12 490
h-index
39
Publications
294
Citations
3 783
Top-3 citing journals
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Top-3 organizations
Indiana University Bloomington
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Ohio State University
Ohio State University (8 publications)
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution (5 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (282 publications)
United Kingdom (4 publications)
Germany (3 publications)
USA (112 publications)
Turkey (3 publications)
United Kingdom (3 publications)

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18 citations, 0.14%
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17 citations, 0.14%
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17 citations, 0.14%
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14 citations, 0.11%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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13 citations, 0.1%
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12 citations, 0.1%
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12 citations, 0.1%
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Taylor & Francis
1970 citations, 15.77%
Wiley
967 citations, 7.74%
Cambridge University Press
845 citations, 6.77%
SAGE
837 citations, 6.7%
Springer Nature
830 citations, 6.65%
Elsevier
589 citations, 4.72%
Duke University Press
403 citations, 3.23%
382 citations, 3.06%
University of Illinois Press
332 citations, 2.66%
Consortium Erudit
227 citations, 1.82%
Walter de Gruyter
222 citations, 1.78%
MDPI
190 citations, 1.52%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
164 citations, 1.31%
Indiana University Press
139 citations, 1.11%
Oxford University Press
126 citations, 1.01%
OpenEdition
115 citations, 0.92%
University of Chicago Press
105 citations, 0.84%
Emerald
95 citations, 0.76%
American Psychological Association (APA)
85 citations, 0.68%
University of California Press
64 citations, 0.51%
Institute of archaeology and ethnography SB RAS
57 citations, 0.46%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
54 citations, 0.43%
CAIRN
50 citations, 0.4%
Annual Reviews
49 citations, 0.39%
IGI Global
46 citations, 0.37%
Liverpool University Press
43 citations, 0.34%
SciELO
37 citations, 0.3%
Brill
35 citations, 0.28%
Intellect
31 citations, 0.25%
American Anthropological Association
30 citations, 0.24%
Equinox Publishing
29 citations, 0.23%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
27 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers Media S.A.
26 citations, 0.21%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
26 citations, 0.21%
23 citations, 0.18%
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
22 citations, 0.18%
International Council for Traditional Music
21 citations, 0.17%
Societe des Americanistes
20 citations, 0.16%
MIT Press
18 citations, 0.14%
Edinburgh University Press
17 citations, 0.14%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
17 citations, 0.14%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
15 citations, 0.12%
Akademiai Kiado
15 citations, 0.12%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
14 citations, 0.11%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
13 citations, 0.1%
Center for Western Studies
13 citations, 0.1%
AOSIS
13 citations, 0.1%
12 citations, 0.1%
Kent State University
12 citations, 0.1%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
11 citations, 0.09%
Maisonneuve et Larose
11 citations, 0.09%
American College of Physicians
11 citations, 0.09%
11 citations, 0.09%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
11 citations, 0.09%
EDP Sciences
10 citations, 0.08%
Unisa Press
10 citations, 0.08%
JSTOR
9 citations, 0.07%
Geological Society of London
9 citations, 0.07%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
9 citations, 0.07%
8 citations, 0.06%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
8 citations, 0.06%
Extra Mural Department of the University College of the West Indies
8 citations, 0.06%
IOP Publishing
8 citations, 0.06%
Ministere de la Culture
8 citations, 0.06%
African Studies Association
8 citations, 0.06%
Ethnologia Europaea
8 citations, 0.06%
Berghahn Books
8 citations, 0.06%
JMIR Publications
7 citations, 0.06%
Cognizant, LLC
7 citations, 0.06%
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS
7 citations, 0.06%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
6 citations, 0.05%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
6 citations, 0.05%
The Royal Society
6 citations, 0.05%
Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
6 citations, 0.05%
African Journals online
6 citations, 0.05%
Project MUSE
6 citations, 0.05%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
6 citations, 0.05%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
6 citations, 0.05%
Namik Kemal University
6 citations, 0.05%
American Marketing Association
5 citations, 0.04%
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers
5 citations, 0.04%
Masaryk University Press
5 citations, 0.04%
University of Colorado
5 citations, 0.04%
Akademizdatcenter Nauka
5 citations, 0.04%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
5 citations, 0.04%
SLACK
5 citations, 0.04%
Maney Publishing
5 citations, 0.04%
4 citations, 0.03%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
4 citations, 0.03%
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
4 citations, 0.03%
Academy of Management
4 citations, 0.03%
4 citations, 0.03%
Institute for Tourism & Croatian Tourist Board
4 citations, 0.03%
Stockholm University Press
4 citations, 0.03%
4 citations, 0.03%
Modern Language Association of America (PMLA)
4 citations, 0.03%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
4 citations, 0.03%
Hindawi Limited
4 citations, 0.03%
Canadian Science Publishing
4 citations, 0.03%
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Indiana University Bloomington
30 publications, 0.31%
Ohio State University
19 publications, 0.2%
Pennsylvania State University
10 publications, 0.1%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9 publications, 0.09%
Utah State University
9 publications, 0.09%
George Mason University
7 publications, 0.07%
University of California, Los Angeles
6 publications, 0.06%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6 publications, 0.06%
Arkansas State University
6 publications, 0.06%
Binghamton University
6 publications, 0.06%
Smithsonian Institution
6 publications, 0.06%
University of Texas at Austin
5 publications, 0.05%
East Tennessee State University
5 publications, 0.05%
Florida State University
4 publications, 0.04%
University of California, Berkeley
4 publications, 0.04%
University of Arizona
4 publications, 0.04%
Brigham Young University
4 publications, 0.04%
University of Helsinki
3 publications, 0.03%
Syracuse University
3 publications, 0.03%
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
3 publications, 0.03%
Western Kentucky University
3 publications, 0.03%
Middle Tennessee State University
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Missouri
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Oregon
3 publications, 0.03%
Trinity University
3 publications, 0.03%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 publications, 0.02%
George Washington University
2 publications, 0.02%
Seoul National University
2 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Davis
2 publications, 0.02%
Western Michigan University
2 publications, 0.02%
Wayne State University
2 publications, 0.02%
Tulane University
2 publications, 0.02%
Dartmouth College
2 publications, 0.02%
Minnesota State University Moorhead
2 publications, 0.02%
East Carolina University
2 publications, 0.02%
Bucknell University
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Tartu
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Colorado Boulder
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Utah
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Houston
2 publications, 0.02%
Portland State University
2 publications, 0.02%
Cape Breton University
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Central Arkansas
2 publications, 0.02%
Rochester Institute of Technology
2 publications, 0.02%
Nazarbayev University
1 publication, 0.01%
Ege University
1 publication, 0.01%
Beijing Normal University
1 publication, 0.01%
Lund University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Haifa
1 publication, 0.01%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Gothenburg
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.01%
Queen Mary University of London
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.01%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.01%
Kanazawa University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Edinburgh
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0.01%
Stony Brook University
1 publication, 0.01%
Griffith University
1 publication, 0.01%
Princeton University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Iceland
1 publication, 0.01%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1 publication, 0.01%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 0.01%
Duke University
1 publication, 0.01%
Gonzaga University
1 publication, 0.01%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.01%
Massachusetts General Hospital
1 publication, 0.01%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.01%
Northeastern Illinois University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Central Florida
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 0.01%
St. Francis Xavier University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Michigan–Flint
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.01%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 0.01%
McMaster University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Minnesota
1 publication, 0.01%
Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn
1 publication, 0.01%
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Amsterdam
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Graz
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Maryland, College Park
1 publication, 0.01%
Western Carolina University
1 publication, 0.01%
Villanova University
1 publication, 0.01%
SWPS University
1 publication, 0.01%
Baylor University
1 publication, 0.01%
West Chester University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Pennsylvania
1 publication, 0.01%
Mount Royal University
1 publication, 0.01%
Florida International University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Kentucky
1 publication, 0.01%
Louisiana State University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1 publication, 0.01%
Appalachian State University
1 publication, 0.01%
Fayetteville State University
1 publication, 0.01%
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Indiana University Bloomington
18 publications, 6.12%
Ohio State University
8 publications, 2.72%
Smithsonian Institution
5 publications, 1.7%
Pennsylvania State University
4 publications, 1.36%
University of Texas at Austin
4 publications, 1.36%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
4 publications, 1.36%
Florida State University
3 publications, 1.02%
Trinity University
3 publications, 1.02%
Seoul National University
2 publications, 0.68%
George Mason University
2 publications, 0.68%
University of Arizona
2 publications, 0.68%
Wayne State University
2 publications, 0.68%
Western Kentucky University
2 publications, 0.68%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 publications, 0.68%
Utah State University
2 publications, 0.68%
Binghamton University
2 publications, 0.68%
East Tennessee State University
2 publications, 0.68%
Portland State University
2 publications, 0.68%
University of Oregon
2 publications, 0.68%
Nazarbayev University
1 publication, 0.34%
Ege University
1 publication, 0.34%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Haifa
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 0.34%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.34%
Kanazawa University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Edinburgh
1 publication, 0.34%
Stony Brook University
1 publication, 0.34%
George Washington University
1 publication, 0.34%
Princeton University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Iceland
1 publication, 0.34%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1 publication, 0.34%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 0.34%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 0.34%
Gonzaga University
1 publication, 0.34%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 0.34%
Northeastern Illinois University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Central Florida
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.34%
Tulane University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 0.34%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 0.34%
Minnesota State University Moorhead
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Minnesota
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Maryland, College Park
1 publication, 0.34%
East Carolina University
1 publication, 0.34%
Western Carolina University
1 publication, 0.34%
Baylor University
1 publication, 0.34%
Mount Royal University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Tartu
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Colorado Denver
1 publication, 0.34%
Brigham Young University
1 publication, 0.34%
Texas State University
1 publication, 0.34%
William & Mary
1 publication, 0.34%
Southern New Hampshire University
1 publication, 0.34%
Middle Tennessee State University
1 publication, 0.34%
Lincoln Memorial University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Houston
1 publication, 0.34%
Cape Breton University
1 publication, 0.34%
Nicolaus Copernicus University
1 publication, 0.34%
Webster University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Missouri
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.34%
Kennesaw State University
1 publication, 0.34%
Kent State University
1 publication, 0.34%
Willamette University
1 publication, 0.34%
University of Kansas
1 publication, 0.34%
California State University, Los Angeles
1 publication, 0.34%
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USA
282 publications, 2.92%
United Kingdom, 4, 0.04%
United Kingdom
4 publications, 0.04%
Germany, 3, 0.03%
Germany
3 publications, 0.03%
Israel, 3, 0.03%
Israel
3 publications, 0.03%
Canada, 3, 0.03%
Canada
3 publications, 0.03%
Republic of Korea, 3, 0.03%
Republic of Korea
3 publications, 0.03%
Turkey, 3, 0.03%
Turkey
3 publications, 0.03%
Finland, 3, 0.03%
Finland
3 publications, 0.03%
Estonia, 2, 0.02%
Estonia
2 publications, 0.02%
Poland, 2, 0.02%
Poland
2 publications, 0.02%
Sweden, 2, 0.02%
Sweden
2 publications, 0.02%
France, 1, 0.01%
France
1 publication, 0.01%
Kazakhstan, 1, 0.01%
Kazakhstan
1 publication, 0.01%
China, 1, 0.01%
China
1 publication, 0.01%
Australia, 1, 0.01%
Australia
1 publication, 0.01%
Austria, 1, 0.01%
Austria
1 publication, 0.01%
Iceland, 1, 0.01%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.01%
Italy, 1, 0.01%
Italy
1 publication, 0.01%
Netherlands, 1, 0.01%
Netherlands
1 publication, 0.01%
Norway, 1, 0.01%
Norway
1 publication, 0.01%
Croatia, 1, 0.01%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.01%
Montenegro, 1, 0.01%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.01%
Switzerland, 1, 0.01%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.01%
Japan, 1, 0.01%
Japan
1 publication, 0.01%
Kosovo, 1, 0.01%
Kosovo
1 publication, 0.01%
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USA, 112, 38.1%
USA
112 publications, 38.1%
United Kingdom, 3, 1.02%
United Kingdom
3 publications, 1.02%
Turkey, 3, 1.02%
Turkey
3 publications, 1.02%
Israel, 2, 0.68%
Israel
2 publications, 0.68%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.68%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.68%
Germany, 1, 0.34%
Germany
1 publication, 0.34%
Kazakhstan, 1, 0.34%
Kazakhstan
1 publication, 0.34%
Estonia, 1, 0.34%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.34%
Iceland, 1, 0.34%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.34%
Italy, 1, 0.34%
Italy
1 publication, 0.34%
Canada, 1, 0.34%
Canada
1 publication, 0.34%
Poland, 1, 0.34%
Poland
1 publication, 0.34%
Finland, 1, 0.34%
Finland
1 publication, 0.34%
Montenegro, 1, 0.34%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.34%
Japan, 1, 0.34%
Japan
1 publication, 0.34%
Kosovo, 1, 0.34%
Kosovo
1 publication, 0.34%
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