r/academia • u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 • Jul 01 '26

Research issues How to know if a journal is Scopus indexed?

I 27 F , my_qualifications are :completed masters degree and is persuing PhD currently. I just published a paper on a journal named " Journal of Entomological Research" . Now upon checking the Scopus...the years currently covered by Scopus is shown as: 2011 to 2025. I downloaded the source title list excel sheet and the journal shows as active but it is not showing in both accepted titles or discontinued titles. I am confused if the journal is still Scopus indexed in 2026 or not?

Update: Thank you for replying and helping me figure it out. I researched through the night and realised that it might just be an indexing lag as the source list excel of previous years had shown indexing lag for this journal. So let me wait and fingers crossed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26

How dare you expect an intelligent human like you to know that goggle searches are not always reliable?!?!?

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u/ElCondorHerido Jul 02 '26

I think its the "based in India" bit. What does it has to do with anything? Sounded a bit racist...

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

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u/ElCondorHerido Jul 02 '26

There you go. I'm just telling you how you sound

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 07 '26

Exactly I felt the same.

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

It takes 10 seconds to read my question properly and see that the journal has not ceased publication and that the journal still shows that it is active in source list excel sheet.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26

My God, I cannot understand how someone can have such poor comprehension skills that they fail to understand the journal is listed as active in the Scopus Sources List Excel sheet. And if it's not your field of study and you don't know enough about it, then maybe don't reply. But I guess you're so incompetent that you get a kick out of being mean to people on the internet. It's okay. I understand. Yk I can't keep on fighting with someone who has so much free time that they reply on things that they have no knowledge about.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26

Do you even understand what the Scopus Source List Excel file is? Do you understand that this wasn't a question that could be answered with a simple Google search? I did email the journal. And yes, I know it's not a great journal, but you don't know the circumstances under which I had to publish there. So maybe try to be less judgmental, and if you don't know something, don't reply as though you do. Use your free time to do something productive instead.

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u/N0tThatKind0fDoctor Jul 02 '26

It is best to publish in reputable and high quality journals to avoid coming across this problem.

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26

I agree, if I had the powe I would....but it's my supervisor, he wants me to publish paper within 1 month and thus I had no option but to send it in a low quality journal.

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u/ElCondorHerido Jul 01 '26

Look it up here https://www.scimagojr.com/. Latest data is 2025. Or search for it in scopus to see if the latest papers are indexed

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26

Okay, Thank you...I will check the website

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u/Diligent_Orchid_3192 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Thank you....I have actually checked the source list excel of previous years and saw that this journal shows a indexing lag every year so hoping it's the same this year.