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Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), DOAJ. Published by Salahaddin University - Erbil.
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ISSN 2218-0230Verify ISSN ↗2412-3986Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Salahaddin University - Erbil
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 196 / 253 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 240 / 300 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences is Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 196 of 253) and Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 240 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences 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 1, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences is published by Salahaddin University - Erbil. Its print ISSN is 2218-0230 and its online ISSN is 2412-3986.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 177. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iraq (89%), Indonesia (2%) and India (2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 1 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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