HYSTRIX-Italian Journal of Mammalogy

HYSTRIX-Italian Journal of Mammalogy is published by Associazione Teriologica Italiana onlus and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, together about 43.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Ecology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Focus and Scope Hystrix the Italian Journal of Mammalogy accepts papers on original research in basic and applied mammalogy on fossil and living mammals. The Journal is published both in paper and electronic "online first" format. Manuscripts can be published as full papers or short notes, as well as reviews on methods or theoretical issues related to mammals. Commentaries can also be occasionally accepted, under the approval by the Editor in Chief. Investigations of local or regional interest, new data about species distribution and range extensions or confirmatory research can be considered only when they have significant implications. Such studies should preferably be submitted as short notes. Manuscripts bearing only a local interest will not be accepted. Full papers have no limits in length as well as in figure and table number and are abstracted in English. Authors are encouraged to add supplemental material in form of colour figures, original datasets and/or computer program source code. Supplemental material and colour figures will appear only on the electronic edition. Short notes must be about 16000 characters long (including title, author names and affiliations, abstract and references), and do not include supplemental material. They are abstracted in English. Proceedings of symposia, meetings and/or workshops, and technical reports can be published as special supplements to regular issues, under the approval by the Editor in Chief and the Associate Editors. There are no page charges. Peer Review Process Manuscripts will be submitted to two reviewers for evaluation of their significance and soundness. Authors will be notified at every significant step in the peer-reviewing process. Publication Frequency Hystrix is published two times per year. Open Access Policy This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources. Licensing and Copyright All the content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Zoology

Editor-in-chief Emiliano MoriPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.93LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher)

0.38Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher)

0.48Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

13OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

24OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

4LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 21 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 21 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Unspecified 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.

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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.

Publisher

Associazione Teriologica Italiana onlus

Country or region

ITALY

Language

Italian, English

Frequency

Semiannual

Founded

1986

ISSN

0394-1914

Electronic ISSN

1825-5272

Latest issue on the website

Volume 37 (2026)

Official links

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• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub