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Neotropical Ichthyology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia.
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ISSN 1679-6225Verify ISSN ↗1982-0224Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 180 / 520 | 65th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 302 / 736 | 59th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 121 / 259 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Neotropical Ichthyology is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 180 of 520), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 302 of 736) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 121 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Neotropical Ichthyology 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.536, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$76 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Neotropical Ichthyology is published by Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia. Its print ISSN is 1679-6225 and its online ISSN is 1982-0224.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Neotropical Ichthyology has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Neotropical Ichthyology published 84 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 89. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (72.9%), United States (7.2%) and Colombia (3.2%). 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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