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Western North American Naturalist is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Brigham Young University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1527-0904Verify ISSN ↗1944-8341Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brigham Young University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 378 / 491 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 576 / 736 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Western North American Naturalist is Q4 in Ecology (rank 378 of 491) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 576 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Western North American Naturalist 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.243, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
Western North American Naturalist is published by Brigham Young University. Its print ISSN is 1527-0904 and its online ISSN is 1944-8341.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Western North American Naturalist has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Western North American Naturalist published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (87.6%), Mexico (9.7%) and Canada (0.5%). 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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