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Ornithology is indexed in Web of Science (SCIE). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0004-8038Verify ISSN ↗2732-4613Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 95 / 520 | 81st | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 184 / 736 | 75th | 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 (1993–present (also 1982–1987)).
Ornithology 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.666, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 109.
Ornithology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0004-8038 and its online ISSN is 2732-4613.
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.
Ornithology has an h-index of 172 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1.
Ornithology published 10 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 128. 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 10 research articles (2021), authors are most often from United States (82%), Canada (12%) and Argentina (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 2026. 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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