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Journal of Arachnology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. Published by American Museum of Natural History.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0161-8202Verify ISSN ↗1937-2396Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 82 / 193 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–2025 (also 1987), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Arachnology is Q2 in Insect Science (rank 82 of 193), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Arachnology 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.462, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Journal of Arachnology is published by American Museum of Natural History. Its print ISSN is 0161-8202 and its online ISSN is 1937-2396.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Arachnology has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #77 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Journal of Arachnology published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 66. 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 92 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from United States (36.6%), Brazil (14.5%) and Australia (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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