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Frontiers in Zoology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1742-9994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 60 / 520 | 88th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 145 / 736 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Frontiers in Zoology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 60 of 520) and Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 145 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Zoology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.826, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 79.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Frontiers in Zoology is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1742-9994.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Zoology has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 2.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Frontiers in Zoology published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 61. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (28.1%), Germany (16.5%) and Poland (11.5%).
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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