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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Museu de Ciencies Naturals.
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ISSN 1578-665XVerify ISSN ↗2014-928XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Museu de Ciencies Naturals
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 277 / 520 | 46th | Q3 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 134 / 231 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 277 of 520) and Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 134 of 231), by CiteScore 2025.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.343, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation is published by Museu de Ciencies Naturals. Its print ISSN is 1578-665X and its online ISSN is 2014-928X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 5.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 50. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (32.6%), Mexico (15.4%) and Brazil (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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