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Conservation Science and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 40 / 231 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 101 / 491 | 79th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 94 / 307 | 69th | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 58 / 134 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Conservation Science and Practice is Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 40 of 231), Q1 in Ecology (rank 101 of 491) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 94 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Conservation Science and Practice 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.079, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,240 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.
Conservation Science and Practice is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its ISSN is 2578-4854.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Conservation Science and Practice has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Conservation Science and Practice published 268 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 279. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42%), Canada (8.4%) and Australia (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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.
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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