Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Insect Science
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
ISSN 1802-8829 · Akademie Ved Ceske Republiky · CZECH REPUBLIC
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.38; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 45 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY is published by Akademie Ved Ceske Republiky 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 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant and animal studies and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, together about 34.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Insect Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The European Journal of Entomology was founded in 1904 as a periodical of the Czech Entomological Society (under the title Acta Societatis Entomologicae Bohemiae). We have experienced significant chances since then (including the title), which reflect the development from a local magazine in Czech towards its current status of a well-established international entomological forum included in all major scientific databases. During this time numerous people contributed to the establishment of the current EJE system, and we want to acknowledge all our past and current collaborators. We are also indebted to all our reviewers and gratefully acknowledge their help. The emblematic insect of the European Journal of Entomology is the heteropteran Pyrrhocoris apterus, which became a common model species after the pioneering and ground-breaking research in animal physiology starting with the discovery of the juvenile hormone analogue before the identification of the hormone itself. We trust in Pyrrhocoris apterus as a faithful symbol of and a link amongst the entomological disciplines covered by the European Journal of Entomology. EJE is an author-friendly journal and provides authors with the option to submit a contribution with only the absolutely necessary formal requirements, which will later be specified in more detail depending upon the eventual success of the submission. We want to kindly invite all potential contributors to consider the EJE as a reliable partner in disseminating their findings and future prospects. We do our best to process submissions promptly and evaluate them strictly but fairly. There are no restrictions regarding the subject, author, geographic region, and so on, on any submission. Taxonomically, EJE accepts contributions on most arthropods, including Hexapoda, Myriapoda, Chelicerata and terrestrial Crustacea. We prefer comprehensive analytical papers in which an insect is the main object of interest, not merely a testing tool as is common in applied research. We will be happy to hear from you and receive your submissions. Please contact us preferably by e-mail at eje@eje.cz, or contact the Editor-in Chief at jan.sobotnik@entu.cas.cz.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Insect Science
Editor-in-chief Jan SobotnikPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Czechia 2, New Zealand 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Insect-Plant Interactions and ControlAgricultural and Biological Sciences14.7%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences11.8%
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8.2%
- Insect and Pesticide ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.7%
- Forest Insect Ecology and ManagementEnvironmental Science5%
- Lepidoptera: Biology and TaxonomyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5%
- Insect Pest Control StrategiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.3%
- Insect behavior and control techniquesAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.9%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Entomology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Entomology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
Other: BIOSIS, Zoological Record, CAB International
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.38LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.68LetPub ·
- h-index
- 48LetPub ·
- h-index
- 73OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,319OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.28OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 38LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,495 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 24 | 4 |
| 2025 | 45 | 45 | 39 |
| 2024 | 47 | 47 | 105 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 134 |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 309 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 290 |
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 review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Desk decision
- 56 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 300 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 200 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 200 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Fee waivers
- No fee waivers
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Not considered
- Papers on marine Crustacea
Article types accepted5, with length limits
- minireviewMinireview: A short review of a small but well-defined topic. The main text should consist of approximately 5,000 words, 50 to 100 references and 3 tables or fi…Length not stated
- opinionOpinion: Solid and well-supported contribution to a debate about an interesting entomological or entomology-related subject. The length of an opinion paper coul…Length not stated
- original articleced in one of the following categories: Original Article: Full-length contribution containing typically about 5,000 words of the main text plus 5 additional tab…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- reviewReview: An exhaustive survey of information and literature on a single topic of general interest to a broad group of entomologists. There is no a priori size li…Length not stated
- short communicationit is well-justified by their content. Short Communication: A brief description of a novel phenomenon of typically less than 2,500 words including title, author…main text ≤ 2,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
English language requirement; authors may need to improve language with native speaker or AI tool. Model summary
All contributions are published in English. If the language used is not fully comprehensible to our editors and reviewers, the authors are expected to revise their texts with the help of a native speaker or at least an AI tool in order to achieve an adequate linguistic quality.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Originality requirement: not published elsewhere and not under review elsewhere. Model summary
Authors are required to confirm on submission that a given manuscript submitted to the EJE has not been published elsewhere (irrespective of language) and is not currently being reviewed by another journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Proofs, copyright and charges
Ultimately, authors bear responsibility for the content of their work. However, the EJE editors may require additional enhancements of the formal or visual aspects of the manuscript even after its acceptance. In particular, the language editor may decide that an accepted manuscript requires additional English language improvements. Such manuscript will be returned to the authors for language and s…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open Access under CC-BY; copyright remains with authors or institutions. Model summary
Articles are freely available on our website as Open Access documents under the Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Copyright for the published material remains with the original copyright holders (authors or institutions).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-blind peer review. Model summary
EJE is a “single-blind” journal, and authors do not know who the reviewers are unless they choose to reveal their identity.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Akademie Ved Ceske Republiky
- Country or region
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1802-8829
- Print ISSN
- 1210-5759
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
What CAS zone is EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY 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 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.38; CiteScore 2.4, h-index 73.
How long does peer review take at EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Czechia (2) and New Zealand (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY open access, and what is the APC?
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .