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Indian Journal of Small Ruminants is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization.
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ISSN 0971-9857Verify ISSN ↗0973-9718Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Animals | 20 / 25 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 480 / 520 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Indian Journal of Small Ruminants is Q4 in Small Animals (rank 20 of 25) and Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 480 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Small Ruminants 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Indian Journal of Small Ruminants is published by Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization. Its print ISSN is 0971-9857 and its online ISSN is 0973-9718.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Indian Journal of Small Ruminants has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 24 Scopus journals in Small Animals.
Indian Journal of Small Ruminants published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 81. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (90.8%), Nigeria (4.1%) and United States (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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