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Revista de Biologia Tropical is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Universidad de Costa Rica.
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ISSN 0034-7744Verify ISSN ↗2215-2075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Costa Rica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 119 / 235 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Revista de Biologia Tropical is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 119 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Revista de Biologia Tropical 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 52.
Revista de Biologia Tropical is published by Universidad de Costa Rica. Its print ISSN is 0034-7744 and its online ISSN is 2215-2075.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Revista de Biologia Tropical has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Revista de Biologia Tropical published 114 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 284. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Colombia (25.4%), Costa Rica (16.7%) and Mexico (15.1%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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