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Herpetological Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by British Herpetological Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1473-0928Verify ISSN ↗2634-1387Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: British Herpetological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 471 / 520 | 9th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 685 / 736 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Herpetological Bulletin is Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 471 of 520) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 685 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Herpetological Bulletin 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.192, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Herpetological Bulletin is published by British Herpetological Society. Its print ISSN is 1473-0928 and its online ISSN is 2634-1387.
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.
Herpetological Bulletin has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #415 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Herpetological Bulletin published 107 papers in 2025. 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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