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Victorian Naturalist is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.
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ISSN 0042-5184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 220 / 235 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1984, 1980), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Victorian Naturalist is Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 220 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Victorian Naturalist 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 6th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Victorian Naturalist is published by Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Its ISSN is 0042-5184.
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.
Victorian Naturalist has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #198 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Victorian Naturalist published 7 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 24. 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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