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Records of the Australian Museum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Scientific Publications.
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ISSN 0067-1975Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 113 / 1936 | 94th | Q1 |
| Museology | 9 / 96 | 91st | Q1 |
| Insect Science | 92 / 193 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 260 / 520 | 50th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 433 / 736 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2005–2012, 1983), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Records of the Australian Museum is Q1 in History (rank 113 of 1936), Q1 in Museology (rank 9 of 96) and Q2 in Insect Science (rank 92 of 193), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Records of the Australian Museum 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.398, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
Records of the Australian Museum is published by Scientific Publications. Its ISSN is 0067-1975.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Records of the Australian Museum has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 5.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Records of the Australian Museum published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 49. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (60.5%), United States (7.1%) and United Kingdom (4.9%). 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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