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Zoosystema

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle · France · Est. 1997

ISSN1638-9387

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2014-11-10). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.569

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.796

Total Worksi

697

Total Citationsi

5,611

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.88

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Zoology; Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

General Information

Country / RegionFrance

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1997

Frequency3x/year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications697

Publisher OrgMuséum national d'histoire naturelle

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1638-9387

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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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

221

2019

188

2020

158

2021

2022

116

2023

2024

2025

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.

Animal Science and ZoologyQ1

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Zoology

Scopus Categories

Animal Science and ZoologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Marine Biology and Ecology ResearchCrustacean biology and ecologyLepidoptera: Biology and TaxonomyPlant and animal studiesCoral and Marine Ecosystems StudiesSubterranean biodiversity and taxonomyParasite Biology and Host InteractionsMarine Ecology and Invasive SpeciesOrthoptera Research and TaxonomyCollembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies

Frequently asked questions about Zoosystema

Is Zoosystema a predatory journal?

Zoosystema was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2014-11-10). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Zoosystema?

Zoosystema 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 0.88.

Is Zoosystema indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Zoosystema is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Zoosystema?