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Malacologia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Malacology.
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ISSN 0076-2997Verify ISSN ↗2168-9075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Malacology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 232 / 520 | 55th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 391 / 736 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2006–2022, 1998–2004, 1996, 1979, 1975–1977, 1971–1973), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Malacologia is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 232 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 391 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Malacologia 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
Malacologia is published by Institute of Malacology. Its print ISSN is 0076-2997 and its online ISSN is 2168-9075.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Malacologia has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #366 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Malacologia published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 25. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.8%), Argentina (13.8%) and Brazil (11.6%).
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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