New Scopus CiteScores and Journal Impact Factor for CheckList

The 2025 Scopus CiteScore for CheckList has been released, reporting a value of 1.4. Published in early June by Scopus. The journal also ranks in Q3 for all categories indexed in Scopus: Insect Science, Ecology, Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Further, the journal’s 2025 Impact Factor stands at 0.6.

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 2025 reflects data from 2022 to 2025.

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 Check List, the current CiteScoreTracker draws on content published from 2023 through the latest complete month of 2026, offering a more immediate view of the journal's citation dynamics.

The latest Scopus CiteScore, CiteScoreTracker, and Impact Factor are automatically displayed on the journal website's homepage and in its newsletter.