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Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontology | 15 / 121 | 88th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 163 / 736 | 77th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 125 / 491 | 74th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2022–2024, 2020, 2006–2018), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology is Q1 in Paleontology (rank 15 of 121), Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 163 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 125 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1877-9077 and its online ISSN is 1877-9085.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 113 Scopus journals in Paleontology.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology published 20 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 119. 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.
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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