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Acta Zoologica Bulgarica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 0324-0770Verify ISSN ↗2603-3798Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 151 / 193 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 417 / 520 | 19th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 621 / 736 | 15th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 223 / 259 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica is Q4 in Insect Science (rank 151 of 193), Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 417 of 520) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 621 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 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 Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 22.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica is published by Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0324-0770 and its online ISSN is 2603-3798.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 74. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Bulgaria (34.2%), Türkiye (12.1%) and India (7.1%).
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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