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Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia
Print version ISSN 1519-7530    Online version ISSN 2236-1715

The Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia (RBP) is an official publication of the Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia and was launched in 2001. The journal is fully open access and publishes quarterly issues in March, June, September, and December.

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia publishes original research articles (typically 10–40 manuscript pages), as well as taxonomic and nomenclatural notes covering all aspects of Paleontology.

Papers must be written only in English (from 2025 onwards; submissions in Portuguese and Spanish were accepted until 31 December 2024). All manuscripts are peer-reviewed by specialists. Proposals for symposium volumes must be discussed in advance with the editors.

Call for Papers: Special Issue (25th year of RBP) on "New Insights on Palaeontological Research in the Araripe Basin"
 
We invite you to submit manuscripts to the Special Issue of the Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, titled ‘New Insights on Palaeontological Research in the Araripe Basin,’ which is now open for submissions.
 
This issue will highlight recent paleontological research from the Araripe Basin and welcomes submissions from researchers working in this area. Please follow the journal’s submission guidelines, which you can find at the link below:
 
You can download the manuscript submission template here:
 
The submission deadline is 11:00 pm (Brasília time) on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
 
The guest editors for this Special Issue are Lucas S. Antonietto ([email protected]) and Borja Holgado ([email protected]), both from the Museu de Paleontologia Plácido Cidade Nuvens in Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil.
 
 
 

Journal Metrics & Indexing

Impact Factor (JCR 2024): 0.60
5-Year Impact Factor: 0.670
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI):  0.41
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank):  86/125 - Earth and Planetary Sciences (Paleontology)
Cite Score Rank (SCOPUS):  90/121 - Earth and Planetary Sciences (Paleontology) - Percentile 26th
Cite Score (2025): 1.3
SNIP (2025): 0.424
 
1.3
2025CiteScore
 
 
26th percentile
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Additional financial support: CNPq (process number 401544/2024-9)

Current Issue

Vol. 28 No. 4 (2025): Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia
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Published: 2026-06-30

Articles

  • Glyptotherium cylindricum (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) en el Cinturón Transvolcánico, Estado de Puebla, México

    Zaid Lagunas-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Jiménez-Moreno, Francisco Cuadrelli, Alfredo Eduardo Zurita, Sergio Suarez-Cruz, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona
    e20250520
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2025.4.0520

  • Body mass estimation for Neoglyptatelus uruguayensis Fernicola et al., 2017 (Mammalia, Cingulata, Pachyarmatheriidae)

    Ezequiel García, Rudemar Ernesto Blanco, Andrés Rinderknecht
    e20250536
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2025.4.0536

  • The first record of endobiotic cornulitids in a heliolitid coral from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia

    Olev Vinn, Magdy El Hedeny, Abdullah Alkahtane, Saleh Al Farraj
    e20250548
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2025.4.0548

  • Paleoclimatic and vegetation reconstruction of the last 22,000 years of western Santa Catarina (Brazil) studied by pollen records

    Ivan Luís Kirchner Eidt, Mirian Carbonera, Gisele Leite de Lima Primam, Jefferson Nunes Radaeski, Soraia Girardi Bauermann, Guilherme Luiz Girardi, Cristina Gouvêa Redin, Daniel Loponte
    e20250550
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2025.4.550

  • Taphonomy in Brazil: over 36 years of history and new insights

    Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Laís Alves-Silva, Ronaldo Araujo Leoni
    e20250570
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2025.4.0570
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