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Acta Herpetologica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Firenze University Press.
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ISSN 1827-9635Verify ISSN ↗1827-9643Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Firenze University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 325 / 520 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Acta Herpetologica is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 325 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Herpetologica 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Acta Herpetologica is published by Firenze University Press. Its print ISSN is 1827-9635 and its online ISSN is 1827-9643.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Herpetologica has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #391 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Acta Herpetologica published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 28. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (22.7%), Brazil (17.7%) and United States (4.9%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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