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Herpetologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. Published by Herpetologist's League Inc..
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ISSN 0018-0831Verify ISSN ↗1938-5099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Herpetologist's League Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 242 / 520 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 420 / 736 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Herpetologica is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 242 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 420 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Herpetologica 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.435, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
Herpetologica is published by Herpetologist's League Inc. Its print ISSN is 0018-0831 and its online ISSN is 1938-5099.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Herpetologica has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #261 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Herpetologica published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 58. 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 63 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.2%), Brazil (10.3%) and Mexico (7.1%). 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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