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Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1000-0933Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 205 / 736 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 153 / 491 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 205 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 153 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica 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 3.8, quartile Q2, 72nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.417, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1000-0933.
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.
Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #652 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica published 472 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 1,262. 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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