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Tropical Zoology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Page Press Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0394-6975Verify ISSN ↗1970-9528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Page Press Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 386 / 520 | 25th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 587 / 736 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Tropical Zoology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 386 of 520) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 587 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Tropical Zoology 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 Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$431 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.
Tropical Zoology is published by Page Press Publications. Its print ISSN is 0394-6975 and its online ISSN is 1970-9528.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Tropical Zoology has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Tropical Zoology published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 31. 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 33 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (22%), Ethiopia (12.1%) and Italy (7.6%).
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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