Journal profile · Entomology
COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN
ISSN 0010-065X · Coleopterists Society · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1947
COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.95; subscription journal; community-reported acceptance: easy; 88 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN is published by Coleopterists Society and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Forest Insect Ecology and Management and Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies, together about 51.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Society publishes the The Coleopterists Bulletin, a refereed quarterly professional journal. The Society also publishes Special Publications and Monographs.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Entomology
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and DistributionAgricultural and Biological Sciences23%
- Forest Insect Ecology and ManagementEnvironmental Science15.1%
- Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences13%
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and BiogeographyEarth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
- Lepidoptera: Biology and TaxonomyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.9%
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.6%
- Insect-Plant Interactions and ControlAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.2%
- Plant and soil sciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences2.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Entomology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Entomology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Entomology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.95LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 21LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 538OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.33OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 52LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,026Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,393 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 68 | 41 | 5 |
| 2025 | 88 | 0 | 14 |
| 2024 | 81 | 28 | 59 |
| 2023 | 106 | 50 | 129 |
| 2022 | 93 | 37 | 137 |
| 2021 | 104 | 61 | 240 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Coleopterists Society
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1947
- ISSN
- 0010-065X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 80 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN
What CAS zone is COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Entomology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.95; CiteScore 0.9, h-index 38.
Which databases index COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN open access, and what is the APC?
COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .