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Pakistan Journal of Zoology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by University of Punjab (new Campus).
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ISSN 0030-9923Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Punjab (new Campus)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 381 / 520 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1979–1982, 1975), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Pakistan Journal of Zoology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 381 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Journal of Zoology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 38.
Pakistan Journal of Zoology is published by University of Punjab (new Campus). Its ISSN is 0030-9923.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pakistan Journal of Zoology has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #398 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Pakistan Journal of Zoology published 207 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 488. 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.
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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