New Scopus CiteScore for ZooKeys

The 2024 Scopus for ZooKeys has been released, reporting a value of 2.5.

The journal is indexed in Q1 for Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Animal Science and Zoology, and Insect Science, and in Q2 for Paleontology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Traditionally announced in June, the Scopus CiteScore is a dynamic academic metric that reflects the citation rate of the content published in a particular journal over a past period. A Scopus CiteScore is estimated for each journal indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

The CiteScore is derived by dividing the number of citations received over the past four full calendar years by the number of peer-reviewed publications published in that same timeframe. Only citations originating from other Scopus-indexed sources are included in the calculation. The Scopus CiteScore 2024 reflects data from 2021 to 2024.

Complementing this annual metric, Scopus also maintains the CiteScoreTracker, which offers a monthly update based on the same formula but incorporates citation data from the ongoing year. For ZooKeys, the current CiteScoreTracker draws on content published from 2022 through the latest complete month of 2025, offering a more immediate view of the journal’s citation dynamics. 

The latest Scopus CiteScore and the CiteScoreTracker are automatically displayed on the journal website’s homepage. They also appear in the journal’s newsletter.