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Archives Animal Breeding is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 0003-9438Verify ISSN ↗2363-9822Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 211 / 541 | 61st | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 174 / 422 | 58th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 234 / 357 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Archives Animal Breeding is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 211 of 541), Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 174 of 422) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 234 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives Animal Breeding 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.493, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$258 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.
Archives Animal Breeding is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 0003-9438 and its online ISSN is 2363-9822.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Archives Animal Breeding has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 2.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Archives Animal Breeding published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 65. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (29.8%), China (16.3%) and Germany (5.8%).
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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