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Zoological Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Academia Sinica.
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ISSN 1021-5506Verify ISSN ↗1810-522XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academia Sinica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 200 / 520 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Zoological Studies is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 200 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
Zoological Studies 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.509, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
Zoological Studies is published by Academia Sinica. Its print ISSN is 1021-5506 and its online ISSN is 1810-522X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zoological Studies has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #453 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Zoological Studies published 58 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 74. 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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