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Herpetological Monographs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Herpetologist's League Inc..
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ISSN 0733-1347Verify ISSN ↗1938-5137Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Herpetologist's League Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 109 / 520 | 79th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 202 / 736 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2024 (also 1994–2021, 1991–1992), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Herpetological Monographs is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 109 of 520) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 202 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Herpetological Monographs 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.451, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
Herpetological Monographs is published by Herpetologist's League Inc. Its print ISSN is 0733-1347 and its online ISSN is 1938-5137.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Herpetological Monographs has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 2.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Herpetological Monographs published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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.
In its latest 24 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (47%), Germany (10.2%) and Argentina (8.3%).
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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