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Herpetological Conservation and Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Herpetological Conservation and Biology.
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ISSN 1931-7603Verify ISSN ↗2151-0733Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Herpetological Conservation and Biology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 354 / 520 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 545 / 736 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 354 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 545 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology is published by Herpetological Conservation and Biology. Its print ISSN is 1931-7603 and its online ISSN is 2151-0733.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #453 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology published 7 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 13. 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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