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Ornithological Applications is indexed in Web of Science (SCIE). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of California Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0010-5422Verify ISSN ↗2732-4621Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,718 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 40 / 520 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 117 / 736 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1992–2020 (also 1987, 1981–1984)).
Ornithological Applications 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.963, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,718 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.
Ornithological Applications is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 0010-5422 and its online ISSN is 2732-4621.
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.
Ornithological Applications has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 1.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1.
Ornithological Applications published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 101. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (57.3%), Canada (15.7%) and Argentina (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: Inactive — coverage ended 2020. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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