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Comparative Parasitology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Helminthological Society of Washington.
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ISSN 1525-2647Verify ISSN ↗1938-2952Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Helminthological Society of Washington
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 71 / 82 | 14th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 656 / 736 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Comparative Parasitology is Q4 in Parasitology (rank 71 of 82) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 656 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Parasitology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 14th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.267, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Comparative Parasitology is published by Helminthological Society of Washington. Its print ISSN is 1525-2647 and its online ISSN is 1938-2952.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Comparative Parasitology has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Comparative Parasitology published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 39. 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 74 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.2%), Mexico (6.1%) and Türkiye (4.7%). 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. 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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