Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Acta Ornithologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Polish Academy of Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-6454Verify ISSN ↗1734-8471Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Polish Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 201 / 520 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1983–1989, 1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Acta Ornithologica is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 201 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Ornithologica 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.574, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
Acta Ornithologica is published by Polish Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0001-6454 and its online ISSN is 1734-8471.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Ornithologica has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Acta Ornithologica published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 88 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Poland (13.1%), Brazil (12.5%) and Czechia (8.3%).
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.