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African Invertebrates

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Pensoft Publishers
ISSN: 16815556, 23052562

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SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q3
Impact factor
1.1
SJR
0.499
CiteScore
1.3
Categories
Animal Science and Zoology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Insect Science
Paleontology
Areas
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Years of issue
2008-2025
journal names
African Invertebrates
AFR INVERTEBR
Publications
309
Citations
1 538
h-index
18
Publications
73
Citations
804
Top-3 citing journals
African Invertebrates
African Invertebrates (172 citations)
Zootaxa
Zootaxa (157 citations)
ZooKeys
ZooKeys (80 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Rhodes University
Rhodes University (10 publications)
University of the Free State
University of the Free State (9 publications)
University of Venda
University of Venda (3 publications)
Rhodes University
Rhodes University (10 publications)
University of the Free State
University of the Free State (9 publications)
University of Venda
University of Venda (3 publications)
Top-3 countries
South Africa (7 publications)
USA (4 publications)
France (1 publication)
South Africa (7 publications)
USA (4 publications)
France (1 publication)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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African Invertebrates
172 citations, 11.18%
Zootaxa
157 citations, 10.21%
ZooKeys
80 citations, 5.2%
Arachnology
28 citations, 1.82%
PLoS ONE
27 citations, 1.76%
Annales Zoologici
24 citations, 1.56%
Journal of Arachnology
23 citations, 1.5%
Insects
22 citations, 1.43%
Journal of Natural History
18 citations, 1.17%
Paleontological Journal
18 citations, 1.17%
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
18 citations, 1.17%
African Entomology
17 citations, 1.11%
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
15 citations, 0.98%
Pedobiologia
14 citations, 0.91%
Scientific Reports
14 citations, 0.91%
African Zoology
13 citations, 0.85%
PeerJ
12 citations, 0.78%
Biodiversity Data Journal
12 citations, 0.78%
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
12 citations, 0.78%
Hydrobiologia
11 citations, 0.72%
Ecology and Evolution
11 citations, 0.72%
Invertebrate Systematics
11 citations, 0.72%
African Journal of Marine Science
11 citations, 0.72%
Organisms Diversity and Evolution
10 citations, 0.65%
Koedoe
9 citations, 0.59%
Diversity
9 citations, 0.59%
Journal of Insect Conservation
9 citations, 0.59%
Cretaceous Research
8 citations, 0.52%
Journal of Molluscan Studies
8 citations, 0.52%
Systematic Entomology
8 citations, 0.52%
Biodiversity and Conservation
8 citations, 0.52%
Acta Tropica
8 citations, 0.52%
Journal of Medical Entomology
8 citations, 0.52%
Ecological Entomology
8 citations, 0.52%
South African Journal of Science
7 citations, 0.46%
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
7 citations, 0.46%
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
7 citations, 0.46%
Science of the Total Environment
6 citations, 0.39%
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
6 citations, 0.39%
Ecological Indicators
6 citations, 0.39%
Fossil Record
6 citations, 0.39%
Applied Soil Ecology
6 citations, 0.39%
Insect Systematics and Diversity
6 citations, 0.39%
Biological Reviews
5 citations, 0.33%
International Journal of Acarology
5 citations, 0.33%
Zoologischer Anzeiger
5 citations, 0.33%
Arthropod Structure and Development
5 citations, 0.33%
International Journal of Legal Medicine
5 citations, 0.33%
Aquaculture
5 citations, 0.33%
Journal of African Earth Sciences
5 citations, 0.33%
Historical Biology
5 citations, 0.33%
European Journal of Taxonomy
5 citations, 0.33%
Oriental Insects
5 citations, 0.33%
African Journal of Aquatic Science
5 citations, 0.33%
Zoosystematica Rossica
5 citations, 0.33%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
5 citations, 0.33%
Palaeoentomology
5 citations, 0.33%
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
4 citations, 0.26%
Zoology in the Middle East
4 citations, 0.26%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
4 citations, 0.26%
Parasitology Research
4 citations, 0.26%
Biological Invasions
4 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
4 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Helminthology
4 citations, 0.26%
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
4 citations, 0.26%
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
4 citations, 0.26%
Environmental Entomology
4 citations, 0.26%
Parasites and Vectors
4 citations, 0.26%
African Journal of Ecology
4 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Crustacean Biology
4 citations, 0.26%
Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
4 citations, 0.26%
Canadian Entomologist
4 citations, 0.26%
Biology
4 citations, 0.26%
Nouragues
4 citations, 0.26%
International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
3 citations, 0.2%
European Zoological Journal
3 citations, 0.2%
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
3 citations, 0.2%
Biological Control
3 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
3 citations, 0.2%
Insect Conservation and Diversity
3 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Applied Entomology
3 citations, 0.2%
Annual Review of Entomology
3 citations, 0.2%
Biological Conservation
3 citations, 0.2%
Entomologica Americana
3 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
3 citations, 0.2%
Malacologia
3 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Entomological Science
3 citations, 0.2%
Entomological Research
3 citations, 0.2%
Journal of King Saud University - Science
3 citations, 0.2%
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
3 citations, 0.2%
Acta Zoologica
3 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Biogeography
3 citations, 0.2%
American Museum Novitates
3 citations, 0.2%
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
3 citations, 0.2%
Palaontologische Zeitschrift
3 citations, 0.2%
Marine Biology Research
3 citations, 0.2%
Forest Ecology and Management
3 citations, 0.2%
Marine Biodiversity
3 citations, 0.2%
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
3 citations, 0.2%
Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny
3 citations, 0.2%
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Pensoft Publishers
281 citations, 18.27%
Elsevier
184 citations, 11.96%
Magnolia Press
167 citations, 10.86%
Springer Nature
166 citations, 10.79%
Taylor & Francis
108 citations, 7.02%
Wiley
102 citations, 6.63%
MDPI
52 citations, 3.38%
Oxford University Press
43 citations, 2.8%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
28 citations, 1.82%
Arachology
28 citations, 1.82%
American Arachnological Society
23 citations, 1.5%
Pleiades Publishing
22 citations, 1.43%
Cambridge University Press
21 citations, 1.37%
Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences
21 citations, 1.37%
Frontiers Media S.A.
16 citations, 1.04%
CSIRO Publishing
13 citations, 0.85%
PeerJ
12 citations, 0.78%
AOSIS
11 citations, 0.72%
National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
11 citations, 0.72%
Academy of Science of South Africa
10 citations, 0.65%
Brill
9 citations, 0.59%
Entomological Society of Southern Africa/Entologiese Vereniging van Suidelike Afrika
8 citations, 0.52%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
7 citations, 0.46%
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
7 citations, 0.46%
South African Assn. For The Advancement Of Science
6 citations, 0.39%
Copernicus
6 citations, 0.39%
Entomological Society of America
6 citations, 0.39%
American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored)
6 citations, 0.39%
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
5 citations, 0.33%
Natal Museum of South Africa
4 citations, 0.26%
Walter de Gruyter
3 citations, 0.2%
King Saud University
3 citations, 0.2%
3 citations, 0.2%
IOP Publishing
3 citations, 0.2%
Wageningen Academic Publishers
3 citations, 0.2%
Korean Biodiversity Information Facility
3 citations, 0.2%
New York Entomological Society
3 citations, 0.2%
Institute of Malacology
3 citations, 0.2%
Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
3 citations, 0.2%
Acta Zoologica Hungarica
3 citations, 0.2%
Academic Journals
3 citations, 0.2%
Annual Reviews
3 citations, 0.2%
Canadian Science Publishing
3 citations, 0.2%
SciELO
3 citations, 0.2%
SAGE
2 citations, 0.13%
EDP Sciences
2 citations, 0.13%
University of Chicago Press
2 citations, 0.13%
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
2 citations, 0.13%
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
2 citations, 0.13%
Zoological Society of Japan
2 citations, 0.13%
Inter-Research Science Center
2 citations, 0.13%
KMK Scientific Press
2 citations, 0.13%
Japan Oil Chemists' Society
2 citations, 0.13%
IntechOpen
2 citations, 0.13%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
1 citation, 0.07%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
1 citation, 0.07%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1 citation, 0.07%
American Society for Microbiology
1 citation, 0.07%
1 citation, 0.07%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1 citation, 0.07%
Kansas Entomological Society
1 citation, 0.07%
The Royal Society
1 citation, 0.07%
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
1 citation, 0.07%
The Coleopterists Society
1 citation, 0.07%
American Scientific Publishers
1 citation, 0.07%
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
1 citation, 0.07%
Florida Entomologist Society
1 citation, 0.07%
Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Geneve
1 citation, 0.07%
Orthopterist's Society
1 citation, 0.07%
CAB International
1 citation, 0.07%
Institut Pertanian Bogor
1 citation, 0.07%
Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
1 citation, 0.07%
1 citation, 0.07%
Entomological Society of Washington
1 citation, 0.07%
Veterinary World
1 citation, 0.07%
1 citation, 0.07%
Tyumen State University
1 citation, 0.07%
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
1 citation, 0.07%
Research Institut of Pomology and Floriculture
1 citation, 0.07%
Arachnologische Arbeitsgemeinschaften Deutschlands
1 citation, 0.07%
Arachnological Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.07%
1 citation, 0.07%
Korean Society of Food Science and Technology
1 citation, 0.07%
1 citation, 0.07%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.07%
PAGEPress Publications
1 citation, 0.07%
PANORAMA Publishing House
1 citation, 0.07%
Scientific Research Publishing
1 citation, 0.07%
Mizo Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.07%
Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education Novosibirsk State Agrarian University
1 citation, 0.07%
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery
1 citation, 0.07%
Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
1 citation, 0.07%
Korean Society of Horticultural Science
1 citation, 0.07%
International Society of Cytology
1 citation, 0.07%
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Rhodes University
10 publications, 3.24%
University of the Free State
9 publications, 2.91%
University of Venda
3 publications, 0.97%
Institute of Biological Problems of the North of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 0.65%
University of Pretoria
2 publications, 0.65%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2 publications, 0.65%
Nelson Mandela University
2 publications, 0.65%
Agricultural Research Council of South Africa
2 publications, 0.65%
University of Saskatchewan
2 publications, 0.65%
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.32%
Aix-Marseille University
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Lausanne
1 publication, 0.32%
Shanghai Ocean University
1 publication, 0.32%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 0.32%
Central Washington University
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.32%
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Wrocław
1 publication, 0.32%
Doñana Biological Station
1 publication, 0.32%
Texas A&M University
1 publication, 0.32%
Estonian University of Life Sciences
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Split
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Yaoundé I
1 publication, 0.32%
University of Dschang
1 publication, 0.32%
National University of Lesotho
1 publication, 0.32%
Smithsonian Institution
1 publication, 0.32%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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Rhodes University
10 publications, 13.7%
University of the Free State
9 publications, 12.33%
University of Venda
3 publications, 4.11%
Institute of Biological Problems of the North of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Pretoria
2 publications, 2.74%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2 publications, 2.74%
Nelson Mandela University
2 publications, 2.74%
Agricultural Research Council of South Africa
2 publications, 2.74%
University of Saskatchewan
2 publications, 2.74%
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 1.37%
Aix-Marseille University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Lausanne
1 publication, 1.37%
Shanghai Ocean University
1 publication, 1.37%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 1.37%
Central Washington University
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 1.37%
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Wrocław
1 publication, 1.37%
Doñana Biological Station
1 publication, 1.37%
Texas A&M University
1 publication, 1.37%
Estonian University of Life Sciences
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Split
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Yaoundé I
1 publication, 1.37%
University of Dschang
1 publication, 1.37%
National University of Lesotho
1 publication, 1.37%
Smithsonian Institution
1 publication, 1.37%
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South Africa, 7, 2.27%
South Africa
7 publications, 2.27%
USA, 4, 1.29%
USA
4 publications, 1.29%
France, 1, 0.32%
France
1 publication, 0.32%
Estonia, 1, 0.32%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.32%
Greece, 1, 0.32%
Greece
1 publication, 0.32%
Cameroon, 1, 0.32%
Cameroon
1 publication, 0.32%
Canada, 1, 0.32%
Canada
1 publication, 0.32%
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1, 0.32%
Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 publication, 0.32%
Switzerland, 1, 0.32%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.32%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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South Africa, 7, 9.59%
South Africa
7 publications, 9.59%
USA, 4, 5.48%
USA
4 publications, 5.48%
France, 1, 1.37%
France
1 publication, 1.37%
Estonia, 1, 1.37%
Estonia
1 publication, 1.37%
Greece, 1, 1.37%
Greece
1 publication, 1.37%
Cameroon, 1, 1.37%
Cameroon
1 publication, 1.37%
Canada, 1, 1.37%
Canada
1 publication, 1.37%
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1, 1.37%
Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 publication, 1.37%
Switzerland, 1, 1.37%
Switzerland
1 publication, 1.37%
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