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Records of the Australian Museum

Scientific Publications · Australia

ISSN0067-1975eISSN2201-4349

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.398

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.695

Total Worksi

1,540

Total Citationsi

16,190

2yr Mean Citednessi

5.50

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Museums. Collectors and collecting; Biology (General): Evolution. Topics: taxonomy, systematics, zoology, natural history, museum collections, cultural history

General Information

Country / RegionAustralia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyThree Times A Year, 1983-

StatusActive

Total Publications1,540

Publisher OrgAustralian Museum

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewPeer review

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Scientific Publications

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0067-1975 / 2201-4349

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

2020

2021

2022

122

2023

2024

2025

148

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HistoryQ1

MuseologyQ1

Animal Science and ZoologyQ2

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ2

Insect ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Zoology

Scopus Categories

Animal Science and ZoologyMuseologyHistoryInsect ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Marine Biology and Ecology ResearchIchthyology and Marine BiologyEvolution and Paleontology StudiesFish Biology and Ecology StudiesLepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Frequently asked questions about Records of the Australian Museum

Is Records of the Australian Museum a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Records of the Australian Museum: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Records of the Australian Museum?

Records of the Australian Museum is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 5.50.

Is Records of the Australian Museum indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Records of the Australian Museum is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Records of the Australian Museum?