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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0024-4082Verify ISSN ↗1096-3642Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,541 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 49 / 520 | 90th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 125 / 736 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1949–present (also 1947, 1943, 1939–1941, 1918–1937, 1866–1916), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 49 of 520) and Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 125 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.991, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,541 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0024-4082 and its online ISSN is 1096-3642.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 2.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society published 199 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (10.6%), Argentina (10%) and Poland (9.3%).
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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