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Vertebrate Zoology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.
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ISSN 1864-5755Verify ISSN ↗2625-8498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 39 / 520 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 105 / 736 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Vertebrate Zoology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 39 of 520) and Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 105 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Vertebrate 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.138, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Vertebrate Zoology is published by Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. Its print ISSN is 1864-5755 and its online ISSN is 2625-8498.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vertebrate Zoology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 3.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Vertebrate Zoology published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 50. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (10.8%), United States (10.3%) and Argentina (9.8%).
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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