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Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 1936-6779Verify ISSN ↗2673-7159Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 84 / 253 | 66th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 81 / 231 | 65th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 143 / 307 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Conservation is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 84 of 253), Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 81 of 231) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 143 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Conservation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.478, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Conservation is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its print ISSN is 1936-6779 and its online ISSN is 2673-7159.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Conservation has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Conservation published 7 papers in 2014; its busiest recent year was 2005 with 74. 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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