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Nature Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 1314-3301Verify ISSN ↗1314-6947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 220 / 736 | 70th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 74 / 231 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Nature Conservation is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 220 of 736) and Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 74 of 231), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature Conservation 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.540, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$862 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.
Nature Conservation is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1314-3301 and its online ISSN is 1314-6947.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nature Conservation has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Nature Conservation published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 74. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (11.3%), China (10.6%) and Bulgaria (7.7%).
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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