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Journal of Natural History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0022-2933Verify ISSN ↗1464-5262Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 506 / 736 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Natural History is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 506 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Natural History 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.374, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of Natural History is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-2933 and its online ISSN is 1464-5262.
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 Natural History has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #443 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Journal of Natural History published 141 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 162. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (14.2%), India (10.7%) and Türkiye (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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