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Waterbirds is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. Published by The Waterbird Society.
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ISSN 1524-4695Verify ISSN ↗1938-5390Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Waterbird Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 287 / 520 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Waterbirds is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 287 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Waterbirds 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.289, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 55.
Waterbirds is published by The Waterbird Society. Its print ISSN is 1524-4695 and its online ISSN is 1938-5390.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Waterbirds has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #312 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Waterbirds published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 70. 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 79 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.4%), Canada (10.1%) and Mexico (5.1%).
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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