The American Journal of Philology is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It covers the field of philology, and related areas of classical literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, and cultural studies. In 2003, the journal received the award for Best Single Issue from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. The current editor-in-chief is Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania). According to Journal Citation Reports, this journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.5 The journal runs an annual prize for "the best article of the year", the Gildersleeve Prize.

Editors-in-chief

Since its inception, the previous editors-in-chief have been:

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed by the following services: