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Terra Latinoamericana is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Mexican Society of Soil Science.
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ISSN 0187-5779Verify ISSN ↗2395-8030Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mexican Society of Soil Science
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 412 / 491 | 16th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 632 / 736 | 14th | Q4 |
| Soil Science | 144 / 167 | 14th | Q4 |
| Pollution | 159 / 180 | 11th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry | 412 / 448 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Terra Latinoamericana is Q4 in Ecology (rank 412 of 491), Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 632 of 736) and Q4 in Soil Science (rank 144 of 167), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Terra Latinoamericana is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.199, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$118 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.
Terra Latinoamericana is published by Mexican Society of Soil Science. Its print ISSN is 0187-5779 and its online ISSN is 2395-8030.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Terra Latinoamericana has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #377 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Terra Latinoamericana published 108 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Mexico (63.8%), Ecuador (20.6%) and Peru (3.1%). 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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