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South American Journal of Herpetology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Sociedade Brasileira de Herpetologia.
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ISSN 1808-9798Verify ISSN ↗1982-355XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Herpetologia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 313 / 520 | 39th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 489 / 736 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
South American Journal of Herpetology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 313 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 489 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
South American Journal of Herpetology 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.332, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
South American Journal of Herpetology is published by Sociedade Brasileira de Herpetologia. Its print ISSN is 1808-9798 and its online ISSN is 1982-355X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South American Journal of Herpetology has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #350 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
South American Journal of Herpetology published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 37. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (30.9%), Argentina (23.1%) and United States (11.7%).
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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