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Southeastern Naturalist is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Humboldt Field Research Institute.
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ISSN 1528-7092Verify ISSN ↗1938-5412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Humboldt Field Research Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 598 / 736 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Southeastern Naturalist is Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 598 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Southeastern Naturalist 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.217, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 37.
Southeastern Naturalist is published by Humboldt Field Research Institute. Its print ISSN is 1528-7092 and its online ISSN is 1938-5412.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Southeastern Naturalist has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #551 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Southeastern Naturalist published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 87. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (96.8%), Canada (1.1%) and Japan (0.5%). 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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