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Pacific Conservation Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1038-2097Verify ISSN ↗2204-4604Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 80 / 231 | 65th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 179 / 491 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Pacific Conservation Biology is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 80 of 231) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 179 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Pacific Conservation Biology 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
Pacific Conservation Biology is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1038-2097 and its online ISSN is 2204-4604.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pacific Conservation Biology has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Pacific Conservation Biology published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 93. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (59.9%), United States (8.5%) and New Zealand (7%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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