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African Journal of Herpetology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2153-3660Verify ISSN ↗2156-4574Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 286 / 520 | 45th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 465 / 736 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 2002–2003, 1996–2000), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
African Journal of Herpetology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 286 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 465 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Herpetology 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.418, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
African Journal of Herpetology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2153-3660 and its online ISSN is 2156-4574.
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.
African Journal of Herpetology has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #300 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
African Journal of Herpetology published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 16. 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 84 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (41.1%), United States (11.2%) and Germany (6.8%).
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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