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Tropics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. Published by Japan Society of Tropical Ecology.
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ISSN 0917-415XVerify ISSN ↗1882-5729Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Society of Tropical Ecology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 122 / 231 | 47th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 428 / 736 | 41st | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 317 / 541 | 41st | Q3 |
| Ecology | 290 / 491 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1997), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Tropics is Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 122 of 231), Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 428 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 317 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tropics 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.230, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Tropics is published by Japan Society of Tropical Ecology. Its print ISSN is 0917-415X and its online ISSN is 1882-5729.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tropics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Tropics published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 16. 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 61 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (61.9%), Malaysia (11.7%) and Indonesia (6%). 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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