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Behavioral Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1045-2249Verify ISSN ↗1465-7279Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,906 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 96 / 520 | 81st | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 187 / 736 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Behavioral Ecology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 96 of 520) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 187 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavioral Ecology 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.890, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,906 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.
Behavioral Ecology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1045-2249 and its online ISSN is 1465-7279.
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.
Behavioral Ecology has an h-index of 177 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Behavioral Ecology published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 218. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.5%), Germany (10.7%) and Australia (9.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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