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Animal Biotelemetry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2050-3385Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 80 / 520 | 84th | Q1 |
| Instrumentation | 64 / 206 | 69th | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 196 / 568 | 65th | Q2 |
| Signal Processing | 75 / 203 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Animal Biotelemetry is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 80 of 520), Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 64 of 206) and Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 196 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Animal Biotelemetry 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.707, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
Animal Biotelemetry is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2050-3385.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Animal Biotelemetry has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Animal Biotelemetry published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 48. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.9%), Canada (9.6%) and United Kingdom (7.8%).
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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