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Caracol is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia.
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ISSN 2178-1702Verify ISSN ↗2317-9651Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 934 / 1137 | 17th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1034 / 1221 | 15th | Q4 |
| Communication | 506 / 541 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Caracol is Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 934 of 1137), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1034 of 1221) and Q4 in Communication (rank 506 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Caracol is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Caracol is published by Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia. Its print ISSN is 2178-1702 and its online ISSN is 2317-9651.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Caracol has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #765 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Caracol published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 62. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (44.1%), Argentina (21.2%) and Spain (9.4%).
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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