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Natural Resource Management and Policy

Natural Resource Management and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer International Publishing.

Checked against the index lists dated 4 October 2026.

ISSN 0929-127XVerify ISSN ↗2511-8560Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Scopus · Q3

0.9

CiteScore 2025

Scopus

Best quartile

rank 655 of 876 · 25th pctile

Indexed in

major index

Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher

ScopusElsevier Scopus

Status

Active

Coverage

2021–present (also 2017–2019)

Source type

Book Series

Open access

CiteScore

0.9

Best quartile

Q3 · 25th pctile

Subject area	Rank	Pctile	Q
Geography, Planning and Development	655 / 876	25th	Q3
Nature and Landscape Conservation	181 / 231	21st	Q4
Economics and Econometrics	630 / 755	16th	Q4
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment	289 / 345	16th	Q4
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	370 / 432	14th	Q4
Global and Planetary Change	123 / 134	8th	Q4

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Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)

Quick answers

Is Natural Resource Management and Policy indexed in Scopus?

Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2017–2019), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.

What quartile is Natural Resource Management and Policy in Scopus?

Natural Resource Management and Policy is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 655 of 876), Q4 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 181 of 231) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 630 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.

What is the impact factor of Natural Resource Management and Policy?

Natural Resource Management and Policy 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.

Who publishes Natural Resource Management and Policy and what is its ISSN?

Natural Resource Management and Policy is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0929-127X and its online ISSN is 2511-8560.

Is Natural Resource Management and Policy in Web of Science?

No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).

Is Natural Resource Management and Policy open access?

No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.

How well cited is Natural Resource Management and Policy? — open metrics via OpenAlex

Natural Resource Management and Policy has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #682 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.

h-index

0.25

2-yr mean citations

i10-index

352

works indexed

1,965

total citations

2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject

#682 of 825 Bottom 18% Geography, Planning and Development

#175 of 216 Bottom 19% Nature and Landscape Conservation

#651 of 744 Bottom 13% Economics and Econometrics

Papers published per year

Natural Resource Management and Policy published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics

Agricultural Innovations and PracticesWater resources management and optimizationBioeconomy and Sustainability DevelopmentClimate Change Policy and Economics

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.

Are there integrity warnings for Natural Resource Management and Policy? — indicators, not proof of misconduct

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.

Scopus statusActive
Retracted papers None recorded
Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged

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.

Official sources & links

Scopus source ↗ ISSN Portal · 0929-127X ↗ISSN Portal · 2511-8560 ↗

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