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Pastoralism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2041-7136Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 54 / 520 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Pastoralism is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 54 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Pastoralism is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.621, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,080 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Pastoralism is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2041-7136.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pastoralism has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Pastoralism published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 48. 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 87 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Kenya (9.3%), United States (8%) and Ethiopia (6.4%).
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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