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Sociobiology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana.
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ISSN 0361-6525Verify ISSN ↗2447-8067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 134 / 193 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993–1994, 1988), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Sociobiology is Q3 in Insect Science (rank 134 of 193), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociobiology 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.302, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
Sociobiology is published by Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. Its print ISSN is 0361-6525 and its online ISSN is 2447-8067.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sociobiology has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Sociobiology published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 107. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (32%), India (22%) and Pakistan (4.7%).
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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