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African Invertebrates is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 1681-5556Verify ISSN ↗2305-2562Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 375 / 520 | 27th | Q3 |
| Insect Science | 141 / 193 | 27th | Q3 |
| Paleontology | 94 / 121 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 569 / 736 | 22nd | Q4 |
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 1.2.
African Invertebrates is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 375 of 520), Q3 in Insect Science (rank 141 of 193) and Q4 in Paleontology (rank 94 of 121), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
African Invertebrates 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$404 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.
African Invertebrates is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1681-5556 and its online ISSN is 2305-2562.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Invertebrates has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #350 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
African Invertebrates published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 17. 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 66 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (42.6%), United States (10.9%) and Belgium (6.6%).
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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