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Biological Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0006-3207Verify ISSN ↗1873-2917Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 61 / 736 | 91st | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 21 / 231 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Biological Conservation is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 61 of 736) and Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 21 of 231), by CiteScore 2025.
Biological 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.700, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 257.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,830 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Biological Conservation is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0006-3207 and its online ISSN is 1873-2917.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biological Conservation has an h-index of 327 and a 2-year mean of 4.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Biological Conservation published 621 papers in 2025. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (15%), Australia (8.8%) and United Kingdom (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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