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Acta Biologica Colombiana is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0120-548XVerify ISSN ↗1900-1649Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 170 / 235 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Acta Biologica Colombiana is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 170 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Biologica Colombiana is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 25.
Acta Biologica Colombiana is published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Its print ISSN is 0120-548X and its online ISSN is 1900-1649.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Biologica Colombiana has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Acta Biologica Colombiana published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 76 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Colombia (50.7%), Mexico (13.8%) and Brazil (13.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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