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Biodiversity Data Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 1314-2828Verify ISSN ↗1314-2836Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 77 / 193 | 60th | Q2 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 224 / 520 | 57th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 123 / 253 | 51st | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 383 / 736 | 48th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 262 / 491 | 46th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 291 / 541 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Biodiversity Data Journal is Q2 in Insect Science (rank 77 of 193), Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 224 of 520) and Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 123 of 253), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Biodiversity Data Journal 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.457, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$485 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.
Biodiversity Data Journal is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1314-2828 and its online ISSN is 1314-2836.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biodiversity Data Journal has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Biodiversity Data Journal published 306 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 317. 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 China (15.7%), United States (8.7%) and South Korea (8.1%).
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.
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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