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Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines.
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ISSN 1908-6865Verify ISSN ↗2508-0342Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 449 / 491 | 8th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 689 / 736 | 6th | 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 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology is Q4 in Ecology (rank 449 of 491) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 689 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology is published by Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines. Its print ISSN is 1908-6865 and its online ISSN is 2508-0342.
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.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #404 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 46. 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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