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Natural Areas Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Natural Areas Association.
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ISSN 0885-8608Verify ISSN ↗2162-4399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Natural Areas Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 146 / 231 | 37th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 331 / 491 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Natural Areas Journal is Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 146 of 231) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 331 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Natural Areas Journal 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 0.295, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 51.
Natural Areas Journal is published by Natural Areas Association. Its print ISSN is 0885-8608 and its online ISSN is 2162-4399.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Natural Areas Journal has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Natural Areas Journal published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 73. 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 50 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (96%), Canada (2%) and China (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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