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Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
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ISSN 1823-3902Verify ISSN ↗2550-1909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation | 41 / 108 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 674 / 876 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 214 / 249 | 14th | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 473 / 541 | 12th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 648 / 736 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation is Q2 in Conservation (rank 41 of 108), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 674 of 876) and Q4 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 214 of 249), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation is published by Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Its print ISSN is 1823-3902 and its online ISSN is 2550-1909.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 96 Scopus journals in Conservation.
Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 39. 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 88 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (58.5%), Philippines (17.6%) and Nigeria (3.8%). 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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