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Insect Systematics and Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1399-560XVerify ISSN ↗1876-312XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 67 / 193 | 65th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 320 / 736 | 56th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 232 / 491 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present (also 1970–1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Insect Systematics and Evolution is Q2 in Insect Science (rank 67 of 193), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 320 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 232 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Insect Systematics and Evolution 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.625, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Insect Systematics and Evolution is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1399-560X and its online ISSN is 1876-312X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Insect Systematics and Evolution has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Insect Systematics and Evolution published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 24. 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 77 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (27.1%), China (18%) and United States (15.6%).
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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