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Acta Parasitologica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1230-2821Verify ISSN ↗1896-1851Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 45 / 82 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992–1994), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Acta Parasitologica is Q3 in Parasitology (rank 45 of 82), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Parasitologica 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.389, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Parasitologica is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1230-2821 and its online ISSN is 1896-1851.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Parasitologica has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Acta Parasitologica published 252 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (18.4%), China (9.1%) and India (8.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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