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Herpetological Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by British Herpetological Society.
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ISSN 0268-0130Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: British Herpetological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 152 / 231 | 34th | Q3 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 344 / 520 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 529 / 736 | 28th | Q3 |
| Ecological Modeling | 39 / 51 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1987), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Herpetological Journal is Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 152 of 231), Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 344 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 529 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Herpetological Journal 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.259, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
Herpetological Journal is published by British Herpetological Society. Its ISSN is 0268-0130.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Herpetological Journal has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Herpetological Journal published 19 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 57. 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 41 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United Kingdom (39%), United States (11%) and Brazil (9.8%).
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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