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Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Malque Publishing.
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ISSN 2318-1265Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malque Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 153 / 520 | 70th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 207 / 491 | 57th | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 97 / 160 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 153 of 520), Q2 in Ecology (rank 207 of 491) and Q3 in Atmospheric Science (rank 97 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology is published by Malque Publishing. Its ISSN is 2318-1265.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #160 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 46. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (21.9%), Brazil (9.7%) and Colombia (9%).
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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