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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by National Science Museum od Korea.
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ISSN 2287-884XVerify ISSN ↗2287-9544Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Science Museum od Korea
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 337 / 520 | 35th | Q3 |
| Insect Science | 127 / 193 | 34th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 343 / 491 | 30th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 524 / 736 | 28th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 396 / 541 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 337 of 520), Q3 in Insect Science (rank 127 of 193) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 343 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.259, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity is published by National Science Museum od Korea. Its print ISSN is 2287-884X and its online ISSN is 2287-9544.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 143. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (25.6%), China (17.4%) and India (17%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 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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