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Ursus is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. Published by International Association for Bear Research and Management.
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ISSN 1537-6176Verify ISSN ↗1938-5439Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Association for Bear Research and Management
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 317 / 520 | 39th | Q3 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 143 / 231 | 38th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 310 / 432 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1998–2001), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Ursus is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 317 of 520), Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 143 of 231) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 310 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Ursus 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 0.392, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 51.
Ursus is published by International Association for Bear Research and Management. Its print ISSN is 1537-6176 and its online ISSN is 1938-5439.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ursus has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Ursus published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 27. 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 91 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.8%), Japan (14.5%) and Canada (9.7%).
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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