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Ardea is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Nederlandse Ornithologische Unie.
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ISSN 0373-2266Verify ISSN ↗2213-1175Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nederlandse Ornithologische Unie
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 187 / 520 | 64th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 315 / 736 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1987, 1981–1985), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Ardea is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 187 of 520) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 315 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Ardea 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.380, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
Ardea is published by Nederlandse Ornithologische Unie. Its print ISSN is 0373-2266 and its online ISSN is 2213-1175.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ardea has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 3.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Ardea published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 53. 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 70 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (25.8%), Spain (9.6%) and United Kingdom (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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