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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Lepidopterists' Society.
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ISSN 0024-0966Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lepidopterists' Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 425 / 491 | 13th | Q4 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 453 / 520 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society is Q4 in Ecology (rank 425 of 491) and Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 453 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.240, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society is published by Lepidopterists' Society. Its ISSN is 0024-0966.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #397 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 59. 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 69 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.3%), Brazil (7%) and Japan (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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