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Zoosystematics and Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 1435-1935Verify ISSN ↗1860-0743Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 97 / 193 | 49th | Q3 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 280 / 520 | 46th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 454 / 736 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Zoosystematics and Evolution is Q3 in Insect Science (rank 97 of 193), Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 280 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 454 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Zoosystematics and Evolution 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.466, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,078 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.
Zoosystematics and Evolution is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1435-1935 and its online ISSN is 1860-0743.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Zoosystematics and Evolution has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Zoosystematics and Evolution published 142 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (70.5%), United States (4.5%) and Russia (3%). 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 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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