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Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2634-6672Verify ISSN ↗2634-6680Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 309 / 760 | 59th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 408 / 891 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1199 / 1530 | 21st | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 251 / 259 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 309 of 760), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 408 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1199 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2634-6672 and its online ISSN is 2634-6680.
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.
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #341 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series published 77 papers in 2025. 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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