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Belgian Journal of Zoology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. Published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0777-6276Verify ISSN ↗2295-0451Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 248 / 520 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Belgian Journal of Zoology is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 248 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Belgian Journal of Zoology 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 36.
Belgian Journal of Zoology is published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0777-6276 and its online ISSN is 2295-0451.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Belgian Journal of Zoology has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 7.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Belgian Journal of Zoology published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 63. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (47.6%), Poland (9.2%) and Argentina (5.6%).
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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