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Restoration Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1061-2971Verify ISSN ↗1526-100XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 107 / 736 | 85th | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 39 / 231 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 98 / 491 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Restoration Ecology is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 107 of 736), Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 39 of 231) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 98 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Restoration Ecology 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.102, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 131.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Restoration Ecology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1061-2971 and its online ISSN is 1526-100X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Restoration Ecology has an h-index of 164 and a 2-year mean of 2.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Restoration Ecology published 335 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (26.3%), Brazil (13.2%) and Australia (13%).
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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