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Chelonian Conservation and Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Chelonian Research Foundation.
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ISSN 1071-8443Verify ISSN ↗1943-3956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chelonian Research Foundation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 323 / 520 | 37th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 503 / 736 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 323 of 520) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 503 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.302, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology is published by Chelonian Research Foundation. Its print ISSN is 1071-8443 and its online ISSN is 1943-3956.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #257 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology published 46 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 87 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.3%), Mexico (5.6%) and Canada (5.2%). 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.
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