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Journal of Insect Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0892-7553Verify ISSN ↗1572-8889Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 109 / 193 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 481 / 736 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Insect Behavior is Q3 in Insect Science (rank 109 of 193) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 481 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Insect Behavior 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.271, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 60.
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.
Journal of Insect Behavior is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0892-7553 and its online ISSN is 1572-8889.
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 Insect Behavior has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Journal of Insect Behavior published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 61. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (38%), Brazil (11.8%) and Japan (8%).
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 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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