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Journal of Insect Biodiversity is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Magnolia Press.
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ISSN 2147-7612Verify ISSN ↗2538-1318Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 154 / 193 | 20th | Q4 |
| Ecology | 406 / 491 | 17th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 625 / 736 | 15th | Q4 |
| Paleontology | 103 / 121 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Insect Biodiversity is Q4 in Insect Science (rank 154 of 193), Q4 in Ecology (rank 406 of 491) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 625 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Insect 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.311, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Insect Biodiversity is published by Magnolia Press. Its print ISSN is 2147-7612 and its online ISSN is 2538-1318.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Insect Biodiversity has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Journal of Insect Biodiversity published 77 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (18.5%), Brazil (16.7%) and Russia (8.8%).
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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