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Journal of Raptor Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Raptor Research Foundation, Inc..
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ISSN 0892-1016Verify ISSN ↗2162-4569Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Raptor Research Foundation, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 275 / 520 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Raptor Research is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 275 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Raptor Research 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
Journal of Raptor Research is published by Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0892-1016 and its online ISSN is 2162-4569.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Raptor Research has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #200 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Journal of Raptor Research published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 125. 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 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.8%), Canada (8.7%) and Argentina (5.8%).
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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