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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1001-9332Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 311 / 736 | 57th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 226 / 491 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 311 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 226 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 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 2.7, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 58.
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1001-9332.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #652 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology published 205 papers in 2016. 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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