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Journal of Wildlife Management is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0022-541XVerify ISSN ↗1937-2817Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$4,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 65 / 231 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 211 / 736 | 71st | Q2 |
| Ecology | 158 / 491 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present (also 1973–1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Wildlife Management is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 65 of 231), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 211 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 158 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Wildlife Management 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.734, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 133.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,270 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.
Journal of Wildlife Management is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0022-541X and its online ISSN is 1937-2817.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Wildlife Management has an h-index of 233 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Journal of Wildlife Management published 193 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 219. 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 (69.9%), Canada (13.5%) and India (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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