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California Fish and Wildlife Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Department of Fish and Game.
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ISSN 2689-419XVerify ISSN ↗2689-4203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Department of Fish and Game
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 429 / 520 | 17th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 642 / 736 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
California Fish and Wildlife Journal is Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 429 of 520) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 642 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
California Fish and Wildlife Journal 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.199, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$750 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.
California Fish and Wildlife Journal is published by Department of Fish and Game. Its print ISSN is 2689-419X and its online ISSN is 2689-4203.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
California Fish and Wildlife Journal has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #402 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
California Fish and Wildlife Journal published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 86 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (91.7%), Mexico (3.5%) and Canada (1.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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