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Comparative Cytogenetics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 1993-0771Verify ISSN ↗1993-078XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 103 / 193 | 46th | Q3 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 290 / 520 | 44th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 354 / 541 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Comparative Cytogenetics is Q3 in Insect Science (rank 103 of 193), Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 290 of 520) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 354 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Cytogenetics 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.341, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$377 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.
Comparative Cytogenetics is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1993-0771 and its online ISSN is 1993-078X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comparative Cytogenetics has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Comparative Cytogenetics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Russia (34.5%), Brazil (14.4%) and China (8.6%).
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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