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Journal of Ethology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0289-0771Verify ISSN ↗1439-5444Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 251 / 520 | 51st | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 425 / 736 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Ethology is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 251 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 425 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ethology 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.321, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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.
Journal of Ethology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0289-0771 and its online ISSN is 1439-5444.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Ethology has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #214 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Journal of Ethology published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (49.8%), United States (10%) and Brazil (6.5%).
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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