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Paleontological Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Palaeontological Society of Japan.
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ISSN 1342-8144Verify ISSN ↗1880-0068Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palaeontological Society of Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontology | 81 / 121 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 494 / 736 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Paleontological Research is Q3 in Paleontology (rank 81 of 121) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 494 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Paleontological Research 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.284, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 32.
Paleontological Research is published by Palaeontological Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 1342-8144 and its online ISSN is 1880-0068.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Paleontological Research has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 113 Scopus journals in Paleontology.
Paleontological Research published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 45. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Japan (72.8%), United Kingdom (3.6%) and China (3.1%). 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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