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Coral Reefs of the World is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2213-719XVerify ISSN ↗2213-7203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 203 / 520 | 61st | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 345 / 736 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 133 / 259 | 48th | Q3 |
| Ecological Modeling | 29 / 51 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2022–2023, 2016–2019, 2012–2013, 2008), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Coral Reefs of the World is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 203 of 520), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 345 of 736) and Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 133 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Coral Reefs of the World 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 2.5, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Coral Reefs of the World is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2213-719X and its online ISSN is 2213-7203.
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.
Coral Reefs of the World has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #268 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Coral Reefs of the World published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 110. 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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