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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao.
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ISSN 2530-0644Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 28 / 231 | 88th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 65 / 491 | 86th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 99 / 432 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 28 of 231), Q1 in Ecology (rank 65 of 491) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 99 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives in Ecology and 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.376, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 55.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is published by Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao. Its ISSN is 2530-0644.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 3.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 63. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (48.9%), Argentina (11.6%) and Mexico (10%).
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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