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Biodiversity Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2). Published by Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 1005-0094Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 263 / 736 | 64th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 85 / 231 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 194 / 491 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Biodiversity Science is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 263 of 736), Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 85 of 231) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 194 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Biodiversity Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.488, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Biodiversity Science is published by Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its ISSN is 1005-0094.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biodiversity Science has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #460 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Biodiversity Science published 239 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 243. 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.
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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