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Basic and Applied Herpetology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6). Published by Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola.
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ISSN 0213-6686Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 309 / 520 | 40th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 486 / 736 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Basic and Applied Herpetology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 309 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 486 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Basic and Applied Herpetology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 40th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Basic and Applied Herpetology is published by Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola. Its ISSN is 0213-6686.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Basic and Applied Herpetology has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #438 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Basic and Applied Herpetology published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 11. 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.
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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