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Ciencia Rural is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.
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ISSN 0103-8478Verify ISSN ↗1678-4596Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterinary (all) | 109 / 204 | 46th | Q3 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 311 / 520 | 40th | Q3 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 279 / 422 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Ciencia Rural is Q3 in Veterinary (all) (rank 109 of 204), Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 311 of 520) and Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 279 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Ciencia Rural 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.239, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$133 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.
Ciencia Rural is published by Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Its print ISSN is 0103-8478 and its online ISSN is 1678-4596.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Ciencia Rural has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 197 Scopus journals in Veterinary (all).
Ciencia Rural published 183 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 545. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (81.2%), China (5.5%) and Türkiye (4.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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