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Nature Conservation Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land".
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Publisher: Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land"
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 74 / 253 | 70th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 75 / 231 | 67th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 163 / 491 | 66th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 69 / 194 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Nature Conservation Research is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 74 of 253), Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 75 of 231) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 163 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Conservation Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
Nature Conservation Research is published by Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land". Its ISSN is 2500-008X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nature Conservation Research has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nature Conservation Research published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 76. 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 62 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Russia (59.9%), Brazil (8.3%) and China (4%). 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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