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Pachyderm is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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ISSN 1026-2881Verify ISSN ↗1683-5018Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 420 / 520 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025 (also 2008–2015), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Pachyderm is Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 420 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Pachyderm 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Pachyderm is published by IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Its print ISSN is 1026-2881 and its online ISSN is 1683-5018.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pachyderm has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #388 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Pachyderm published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 56. 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 49 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (23%), United Kingdom (20.6%) and Kenya (12.9%).
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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