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Invertebrate Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by American Microscopical Society.
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ISSN 1077-8306Verify ISSN ↗1744-7410Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Microscopical Society
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 202 / 520 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 1995–2024), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Invertebrate Biology is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 202 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Invertebrate Biology 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Invertebrate Biology is published by American Microscopical Society. Its print ISSN is 1077-8306 and its online ISSN is 1744-7410.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Invertebrate Biology has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #300 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Invertebrate Biology published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.5%), Brazil (9%) and Canada (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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