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HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0018-442XVerify ISSN ↗1618-1301Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 115 / 536 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1950–1951), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 115 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.297, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0018-442X and its online ISSN is 1618-1301.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #173 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 47. 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 49 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.7%), Poland (10.2%) and Italy (9.2%).
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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